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Aksulamal

One of the important aspects of developing the conscious mind is awareness raising especially for the youth, alongside our courses since 2000 has been the publication of an Urdu quarterly Aksulamal (Reflection of Action). Aksulamal mainly focuses on the colonial and imperialist basis of development practices and its systematic manifestation in the world. It tries to intellectually unveil the origin of the world’s dominant system, its causal link with contemporary issues to understand the world complexity in a coherent manner. The critical analysis of conventional development paradigm i.e. the mass education, news and information, poverty alleviation, community subjugation, role of multinationals and globalization to raise radical awareness in masses of the role and strategies of global Power structures. The dominant part of Aksulamal focuses on above mentioned issues from leading international and national intellectuals i.e. Noam Chomsky, Harvard Zinn, Paulo Friere, Allama Eqbal, Helena Norberg Hodg, Edward Said, Eqbal Ahmed, Dr. Tariq Rehman and Dr. Mubarak Ali etc. Aksulamal translates the contributions of these intellectuals and make the access to masses possible through our publication and courses. Aksulamal is published quarterly and is widely distributed among development workers, CBOs/NGOs, academic institutions, libraries, students, policy makers, community centers and people’s representatives.

Transform

English Quarterly Magazine “Transform” focused on History, Education, culture and Development. The magazine provides a critical insight on subject matter. It invites views of critical writers such as Noam Chomsky, Paulo Frierre, Edward Said,Dr. Allama Iqbal, Ivan Illich, Arundhati Roy and many others who through light on various issues of International affairs, education, gender, poverty, politics and political scenario locally and Globally. The Magazine also narrates life and Struggle of most of the writers and thinkers who have really influence the worldview with their thoughts and challenged the status quo verbally as well as practically. There are also local writers and case studies that help in understanding the issues existing on the grass root level. The beautiful and interesting fact of the magazine is that it clearly articulates the missing link in the perspectives of local and global issues.

Amal-e-Payma

IDSP is a research-oriented institution. The learners of IDSP carry out action researches in varied fields of social issues. Our faculty continuously does research to improve their knowledge, enhance the scope of the courses and engage new reference points for improved understanding of the contemporary issues. This whole process led IDSP to publish the bi-annual research journal Ammal Payema. It consists of the Research oriented practices conducted by IDSP Learners, fellows, Interns and Mentors. The Journal is aimed to initiate a discourse on the alternative spaces of Education, Development and culture so that to establish pro-people and decentralized learning spaces for seeking social justice and equity.

IDSP Newsletter

IDSP newsletter is aimed to provide information to our learners, partners, funding agencies, government and all others interested in IDSP. The newsletter is a quarterly publication, it informs the reader on the activities of IDSP under its different programs, informs about the upcoming events and any other interesting news, which relates to IDSP.

Globalization and Mother Languages

An Urdu book on “Globalization and Mother Languages: Challenges & Opportunities” Edited by Arif Tabassum, is published by IDSP-Pakistan, It consists of the papers presented in a one day National Conference on the same topic in connection with Mother Languages World Day in February 2003. Papers of Dr. Mubarak Ali, Dr. Tariq Rahman, Syed Sikander Mehdi, Shafaqat Tanveer Mirza, Mazhar Arif, Rehana Chanar, Jamshed Khan Dukhi, Sher Baz Ali, Karim Baryalay, Arif Zia, Prof. Zeenat Sana, Surat Khan Marree, Qadir Nayal and Arif Tabassum are included along with the comments of Dr. Quratulain Bakhteari and Munir Badeni. It presents a good linguistic picture of Pakistani languages in the era of globalization. The book can be obtained from IDSP Office.