DEEP ECOLOGY, DAMS, & DZONGULAND LEPCHAS PROTEST- Narratives about their Threatened Land ............

Kerry Little is an Australian writer who is a PhD candidate in the School of Social Inquiry at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). Her work involves recording traditional and contemporary Lepcha stories and examining how modernity and globalization has impacted the Lepchas' connection to their traditions.

She records Lepcha stories in the context of a major protest by Lepcha activists against mega-hydro-electric projects which are slated for the Lepcha Reserve in Dzongu in North Sikkim, north-east India.

Eco-philosophy and the deep ecology movement provides the framework in which Little understands the Lepchas’ (who are nature-worshippers) feeling for their land. Little`s PhD is non-traditional, enabling her to present her narrative-based work within the framework of creative non-fiction.

You can access this work of her's @
http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/index.php/trumpet/article/view/1151/1452