Curious Marriage Research Articles

Carbon Forests at the Margins of the State: The Politics of Indigenous Sovereignty and Market Environmentalism in the North-eastern Hills of India

In the north-eastern hills of Meghalaya, the Khasi Hills project, self-advertised as ‘one of the first Redd+ initiatives in Asia to be developed and managed by indigenous governments on communal lands’, is often presented as one of the rare success stories of India’s recent experimentation with market instruments as part of its forest governance. This article uses this example to extend existing discussions on the neoliberalization of forest governance, and its intersections with the cultural politics of resource control. Unlike mainstream forestry projects criticized for being too concentrated in the hands of the Forest Department, this project explicitly taps into the particularities of a region located on the margin of the Indian nation-state, where, crucially, ownership and control of the land lie formally with the people rather than with the state. The article explores the politics of this curious marriage of (formal) indigenous sovereignty with market environmentalism, showing, first, the centrality of these assumed cultural and ecological specificities within the regime of justification of such market project; second, how the aspirations of project proponents for community engagement unravelled in practice; and, third, the limits of their endeavours due to larger structural social inequalities and the requirements of such market projects. I conclude with the idea that far from being anecdotal, this case brings interesting perspectives in the context of the struggle for the recognition of forest rights in the rest of India.

Milton's 'Christian Talmud'

This essay argues that Milton's divorce tracts recuperate Hebraic thought as a means of challenging prevailing orthodoxies of the Christian intellectual tradition. By siding with Hebraic interpretations of divorce law, Milton seeks to expand the social liberties of contemporary Christians beyond Christian scriptural precedent. The domestic liberty to divorce on grounds of intellectual incompatibility further implies a radical displacement of political as well as exegetical legitimacy from established institutional sites of authority. Milton gives voice to a notoriously complex relation to authority by means of his investigation of pedagogy as the biblical trope for Christian inheritance and succession from Jewish tradition. Education is therefore presented as an interpretive principle, which is best illustrated by the example of Rabbi Jesus as he confronts the Pharisees on the question of divorce. In this context, the individual's vexed relation to tradition illustrates the urgent need to historicize Christianity in order to recover a truly Christ-like iconoclasm. Thus this essay sets Milton's appropriations of rabbinic thought in the broader Reformation context of resistance to human traditions while also showing how the curious marriage, divorce and reconciliation of Judaism to Christianity lies at the heart of Milton's knowing but at times contradictory intervention into intellectual history.

Myth and Neurosis in Ibsen’s Mature Plays

Myth and realism are quite incompatible, we suppose. Their curious marriage in Ibsen's plays, in which mythic patterns are enacted by the Norwegian burghers and their matrons, poses problems which call the nature of modern myth criticism into question. The case is not unique, of course. Eliot praised Joyce's use of myth in Ulysses, and described its function as that of a template, imposing form on the chaos of modern life Л But Ibsen, writing earlier, depicts not a chaotic world which needs shaping, but a highly structured world in the process of unravelling. Orley Holtan's important study of mythic patterns in Ibsen's plays2 employs a method borrowed from Jung, Frye, Cassirer, and other proponents of the archetype, who classify myth semantically, according to content. 3 Holtan therefore looks for archetypal myth structures in Ibsen's work Frye's quest pattern and Campbell's monomyth, for example and for myth content, such as the inclusion of supernatural beings and improbable events. This method prompts him to conclude that only the early and the late plays of Ibsen are mythic in nature. He classifies the social dramas of the middle period in terms borrowed from Frye, as myth displaced in favor of realism: They operate in a human world in which the supernatural is absent and causes and effects are, in large part, realistically determined.4 By aligning myth with the sacred and realism with the secular, Holtan fails to avail himself of those critical tools which would allow him to overcome the dichotomy of myth and the real, and to analyze simultaneously the compelling structural principle which governs Ibsen's last twelve plays. Contemporary structuralism, particularly the myth criticism of anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, offers a way of looking for repetitions, similarities, differences, and other relationships

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