Paper short abstract:

The present proposal focuses on climate governance and earth democracy in the Anthropocene through innovative templates of eco-communities and earth-centric modes of production as seen in alternative non-commodified ways of living, practiced by India`s indigenous population for centuries.

Paper long abstract:

The present proposal reinforces the ideas of climate governance and earth democracy that ensure the sustenance of both human-animals and other non-human species through alternative imaginaries of eco-communities and innovative modes of production, affiliations and dignified labour and in doing that it draws on the findings of recent ecological disasters in the Himalayan ranges of northern India as well as on the corporate plunder of tribal lands through the optics of alternative non-commodified ways of living as practiced by India`s indigenous population for centuries. The Indian government in spite of having Green Tribunals and eco-friendly laws has failed to tame the tide of ecocide as mere law making in the absence of genuine policy reversals would have few results. Reformulation of climate policies, I argue, would have to premise on new formats of transformative eco-governance, eco-ideologies and alternative modes of productions. I intend to foreground such hidden costs of capitalo-production centric governance in India by exploring to see if new alternative organizational systems of Intentional Communities that work with the form of 'micro-philanthro-capitalism' could come to the rescue. In doing that my empirical base would be the tribal life world in Orissa which has witnessed corporate built up and privatization of natural habitats of the indigenous groups who practice a different life ethos that is more in tune with post-Anthropocentric demands for alternative non-reified templates of living and sustenance.