1st Edition
Ecology, Space, and Identity in the Eurasian Region Between the Local and the Global
Introduction: Environment, space, and identity in the Eurasian region
Lili Di Puppo and Arnab Roy Chowdhury
1. Indigenous connections with the resourcescape in the Russian North and Siberia
Anna Varfolomeeva
2. Resisting ‘extractive capital’: a comparative study of two adivasi anti-mining movements in postcolonial (and neoliberal) India
Jacopo Agostini, Arnab Roy Chowdhury and Priyanshu Gupta
3. ‘The past is becoming the future’: Genghis Khan the environmentalist and the discourses of modernity and legacy concerning proper waste disposal in post-socialist Mongolia
Anna Dupuy
4. Engaging the postcolonial state: dam, forced relocation, and the Bhil Adivasi Group of the Narmada River Valley, India
Vikramaditya Thakur
5. Between remembrance and forgetfulness: heart perception, oneness and the human-landscape relationship in a Bashkir Sufi circle
Lili Di Puppo
6. Between land and the market: farmers’ mobilizations in Chhattisgarh and western Uttar Pradesh
Manjusha Nair
7. Desert geographies: solar energy governance for just transitions
Siddharth Sareen and Shayan Shokrgozar
Biography
Lili Di Puppo is Postdoctoral Researcher at KU Leuven, Belgium, and Research Associate on the project “Muslims, the Secular, and Existential Risk” at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her research spans anthropology of religion, existential risks, human–nature relations, and sacred sites. She has held positions at the University of Helsinki, FAU Erlangen–Nürnberg, and the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia. She has published special issues on Muslim ontologies and Islam in Russia and co-edited Peripheral Methodologies: Unlearning, Not-Knowing and Ethnographic Limits (Routledge, 2021). She convenes the EASA network “Muslim Worlds.”
Arnab Roy Chowdhury is Associate Professor in the School of Sociology at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) University, Moscow, in the Russian Federation. Prior to this he was an Assistant Professor in the Public Policy and Management Group at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIMC). He received his PhD in Sociology from the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, in 2014. His research and teaching interests include forced migration and refugee studies, social movements studies, ethnicity and nationalism, natural resources extraction and labour, and postcolonial & subaltern studies [[email protected]].
