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156979
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Japan’s medical establishment relies heavily on the ideology of Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) in treating the nation’s addicts and alcoholics. Japanese individuals diagnosed as ‘alcohol dependent’ and trying to stay sober must embrace and fully incorporate a prescribed recovery ideology into their daily life. A.A. demands acceptance of alcoholism as a lifelong and incurable disease, requires belief in the possibility of a ‘spiritual transformation’, and positions any relapses as the individual’s fault. This organizational system purports to transform individuals into fundamentally new people but runs the risk of casting alcoholics as permanently diseased. It also can shield its methodological framework from criticism. Oftentimes, Japanese alcoholics are cast into a narrow, constraining recovery space without recourse to assert agency over their struggles with addiction. The Japanese A.A. system allows exploration of how prevailing recovery models and views on addiction can exacerbate the suffering of individual addicts through mandated conformity to the dominant views of what constitutes addiction and successful recovery.
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163587
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This article, based on fieldwork, discusses the negative impacts of land alienation suffered by Adivasis in Attappady, a tribal block of Kerala in South India. Experiencing multiple alienations that have fundamentally affected their way of life, agricultural practices and food culture, tribals not only continue to suffer discriminatory treatment by non-tribal settlers, but also by state authorities’ restrictions of access to local forests and forest produce. These problems assume added significance as this ecologically important location in the Western Ghats of India is one of the eight ‘hottest hotspots’ of biological diversity in the world, while the traditional guardians of this environment have been completely disempowered. The article traces abuses of power in land alienation processes, analyses unequal power structures and argues that better appreciation of traditional tribal culture and its ecologically holistic approaches ought to inform policies for local sustainable development. This would help the tribals to safeguard their identity within the constraints of current conditions and enhance the prospects for sustainable preservation of the precious local natural resources and biodiversity.
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108210
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