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Living in Critical Zones Environmental Humanities in South Asia

224 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge India

224 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge India

224 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge India

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This volume develops the concepts and methods of Critical Zone Analysis in the South Asia context. Critical Zone Analysis is a new way for the humanities to recompose narratives to do with climate change and other critical environmental problems through literature, the sciences, and science and technology studies. Extending the legacy of Bruno Latour, the diverse contributors in this book... Read more

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Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Jennifer Eadie and Stephen Muecke

Part 1: Working in the Critical Zone

1. Living in the Critical Zone: The Environmental Humanities

Stephen Muecke

2. Terranology: Integrating Science and Social Sciences in the Critical Zone

Lesley Green

3. Coming Down to Earth: Towards Bio-cultural Care

Sandra Wooltorton

4. The Dividing Khandesh: an Ecocritical Study of Khandeshi Bhil and Mavchi Communities in Western and Central Parts of India

Swara Joshi and Meera Vasani

Part 2: Reckoning with Human and Nonhuman Belonging

5. Extraction, Extinction, Emergence: The Plantation as Critical Zone

Sophie Chao

6. Encountering the Bengal Tiger in the climate ‘hotspot’ of the Sundarbans

Michele Lobo, Ashraful Alam, Sumana Bandyopadhyay

7. Where Defending Mother Earth and the Quest for a Just World are the Same and One: Berta Cáceres

Kumar Mangalam

8. Post-truth, Human-machine and Alienation

Babu Rajan P P

9. Of the Re-enchantment of Our Lives: A Working Paper

Sanjay Mukherjee

Part 3: The Novel as a Story-Universe

10. Fig Trees and Humans: The Destruction of the Ecosystem of the Arboreal World and the Ecological Crisis in Cyprus in Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees

Piyush Raval

11. Ecohumanism & Apocalyptic Reading of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy

Pratiksha N. Chavada

12. Climate and Culture Crisis: A Study of Amitav Ghosh’s Selected Works through Ecocriticism

Henna B Muliyana

13. Environment, Capitalist Development and Class Struggle in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Khyati Sorathiya

14. An ecocritical Reading of Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behaviour and Olga Tokarkzuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of Dead

Bhakti Vaishnav

15. An Ecofeminist Reading of Endangered Lives

Dhwani Vaishinav