1st Edition

Remapping Energopolitics Blue Humanities, Geophilosophy and Sri Lankan Minor Writings

By Abhisek Ghosal Copyright 2024
112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

Emerging concerns and contexts of geological thinking seek to bring out how energopolitical interventions into the geokinetic "unfolding" of the Earth assume new dimensions and directions, owing to the complex and evolving intersections between "folds" and "fluxes" of energy in the context of oceans. Written in negotiation with the notion of energopolitics articulated by Dominic Boyer,... Read more

Introduction

Why Blue Humanities Matter

Chapter I

Nomadic Singularities of Earth: Negotiating Geophilosophical Reflections

Chapter II

Onto-epistemologies of Minor Writing: an Overview                    

Chapter III 

Cartography of Blue Humanities: Contentions and Contestations  

Chapter IV

Geokinetic Interventions into Matter and Matter(ing): Thresholds of Energopolitics                                                                                                     

Chapter V

Sri Lankan Minor Fiction: Earth(ing), Energy Flows and Oceanic Ecologies 

Conclusion

How Energy Humanities Matter          

     

Biography

Abhisek Ghosal currently works at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, Jharkhand. He previously worked as full-time Assistant Professor at O.P. Jindal Global University (Institute of Eminence), Sonipat, Haryana and at Christ (Deemed to be University), Bannerghatta Road Campus, Bengaluru. He holds an M.A., an M.Phil. and a Ph. D (IIT Kharagpur). His broad areas of research interest include Deleuze and Guattari Studies, Blue Humanities, South Asian Literature, Indic Studies, and Energy Humanities. He has published articles in a number of leading academic journals, including Symploke, New Global Studies, The CEA Critic, Southeast Asian Review of English, and e-Tropics.