Living in Critical Zones

Environmental Humanities in South Asia
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-79753-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Critical Interventions in Theory and Praxis

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 demonstrate that scholars of southern Asia have much to offer the environmental humanities during this conjuncture where the modernist conceptual architectures are falling apart under the pressure from threatening future scenarios. Certainties about western versions of progress are challenged in this book not only by material planetary limitations but also by decolonizing assertions about alternative modernities and territorially sustainable ways of life among Indigenous peoples.

Part of the Critical Interventions in Theory and Praxis series, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of environmental humanities, climate change, sociology, literature, science, feminism, gender studies, and South Asian studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eadie, Jennifer

Muecke, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Part 1: Working in the Critical Zone 1. Living in the Critical Zone: The Environmental Humanities 2. Terranology: Integrating Science and Social Sciences in the Critical Zone 3. Coming Down to Earth: Towards Bio-cultural Care 4. The Dividing Khandesh: an Ecocritical Study of Khandeshi Bhil and Mavchi Communities in Western and Central Parts of India Part 2: Reckoning with Human and Nonhuman Belonging 5. Extraction, Extinction, Emergence: The Plantation as Critical Zone 6. Encountering the Bengal Tiger in the climate ‘hotspot’ of the Sundarbans 7. Where Defending Mother Earth and the Quest for a Just World are the Same and One: Berta Cáceres 8. Post-truth, Human-machine and Alienation 9. Of the Re-enchantment of Our Lives: A Working Paper 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 11. Ecohumanism & Apocalyptic Reading of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy 12. Climate and Culture Crisis: A Study of Amitav Ghosh’s Selected Works through Ecocriticism 13. Environment, Capitalist Development and Class Struggle in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness 14. An ecocritical Reading of Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behaviour and Olga Tokarkzuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of Dead 15. An Ecofeminist Reading of Endangered Lives

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer Eadie is Research Fellow in the Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame, Broome, Australia.

Stephen Muecke is Senior Research Fellow at the Nulungu Research Institute, Notre Dame University, Broome, Australia.