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  • Ecodisaster Imaginaries in India

    Essays in Critical Perspectives

    by Tajuddin Ahmed, Sharada Allamneni, Risha Baruah, Debajyoti Biswas, Sonalika Chaturvedi, Shruti Das, Joydip Ghosh, Samrat Laskar, Debabrata Modak, Dheeraj Pandey, Ashwarya Samkaria0, Devapriya Sanyal1, Tarakeshwar Senapati2, Dona Soman3, Sk Tarik Ali4, Renu Bhadola Dangwal5, Richa Joshi Pandey6, Roshan Raj Singh7, Goutam Buddha Sural8, Joyjit Ghosh9, Samit Kumar Maiti1, Scott Slovic3, Shreya Bhattacharji5 ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Ecodisaster Imaginaries in India: Essays in Critical Perspectives is a volume of critical essays that discuss and debate the literary and cultural representations of ecological/environmental disaster in India from the perspectives that are integral to postcolonial disaster studies and the environmental humanities. The essays offer theoretically informed readings of environmental fiction, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Environmental Crisis and Human Rights

    Literary and Cultural Representations

    Edited by Joyjit Ghosh, Samit Kumar Maiti, Sk Tarik Ali ...
    Series series Environment and Society
    Environmental Crisis and Human Rights: Literary and Cultural Representations engages with the human rights implications of anthropogenic environmental crisis through a critical reading of a wide spectrum of literary and cultural texts from different parts of the world. The Introduction and the eighteen theoretically informed essays included in the collection highlight how race, caste, class, ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Imagining Ecocatastrophe

    Reading Literary and Cultural Texts in the Global Context

    Edited by Scott Slovic, Joyjit Ghosh, Samit Kumar Maiti ...
    This volume examines scholarly perspectives on eco-imaginaries, focusing in particular on how eco-catastrophes have been represented in literature and different visual forms, including film, television and cartoons, among other cultural media. It draws on literary genres such as science fiction, climate fiction, speculative fiction, petrofiction, post-apocalyptic narratives and nuclear fiction to ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • The Wisdom of Sustainability

    Buddhist Economics for the 21st Century

    by Sulak Sivaraksa ...
    The Wisdom of Sustainability continues E. F. Schumacher s groundbreaking work on Buddhist economics in Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. Emphasizing small-scale, indigenous, sustainable alternatives to globalization, Sulak offers hope and alternatives for restructuring our economies based on Buddhist principles and personal development. ... Read more

    $10.29 USD

  • Flourishing Kin

    Indigenous Wisdom for Collective Well-Being

    by Yuria Celidwen, PhD ...
    From Indigenous scholar Yuria Celidwen comes a first-of-its-kind book about our aspiration for sustainable, collective flourishing through Indigenous wisdom, traditions, and practices that bridge Indigenous and Western knowledges and ways.How do we cultivate happiness? When facing the monumental challenges of our world, we often end up disconnecting in order to focus on our mental health. Dr. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • In the Shadows of the State

    Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India

    by Alpa Shah ...
    In the Shadows of the State suggests that well-meaning indigenous rights and development claims and interventions may misrepresent and hurt the very people they intend to help. It is a powerful critique based on extensive ethnographic research in Jharkhand, a state in eastern India officially created in 2000. While the realization of an independent Jharkhand was the culmination of many years of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Planetary Justice

    Stories and Studies of Action, Resistance and Solidarity

    by Natasha Abhayawickrama, Alex Baird, Robin A Bellingham, Sanjana Dutt, Souvik Lal Chakraborty, Beth Christie, Alicia Flynn, Aleryk Fricker, Aditya Ghosh, Naomi Godden, Anwesha Haldar, Lowell Hunter, Marlies Kustatscher, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Callum McGregor, Jenia Mukherjee, Yin Paradies, Anne Poelina, Kalyan Rudra, Lakshminarayan Satpati, Amrita Sen, Sharon Stein, Ruchira Talukdar, Dani Villafaña, Bill Webb, Sandra Wooltorton, Julian S. Yates ...
    Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Bringing together interdisciplinary climate change scholarship and grassroots activism, this book considers the possibilities of planetary justice across human difference, generations, species and the concept of life and non-life. Writing amidst bushfires, cyclones, global climate strikes and a global pandemic, contributors from the Earth ... Read more

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  • Educating for the Anthropocene

    Schooling and Activism in the Face of Slow Violence

    by Peter Sutoris ...
    The work of environmental educators and activists in India and South Africa offers new models for schooling and environmental activism.Education has never played as critical a role in determining humanity’s future as it does in the Anthropocene, an era marked by humankind’s unprecedented control over the natural environment. Drawing on a multisited ethnographic project among schools and activist ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Systemic Crises of Global Climate Change

    Intersections of race, class and gender

    Edited by Phoebe Godfrey, Denise Torres ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
    Sociological literature tends to view the social categories of race, class and gender as distinct and has avoided discussing how multiple intersections inform and contribute to experiences of injustice and inequity. This limited focus is clearly inadequate.Systemic Crises of Global Climate Change is an edited volume of 49 international, interdisciplinary contributions addressing global climate ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Struggle Against the State

    Social Network and Protest Mobilization in India

    by Ashok Swain ...
    Many developing countries pursue policies of rapid industrialization in order to achieve faster economic growth. Some policies cause displacement forcing many individuals to take up a fight against the state. Interestingly some of these dissenting individuals are more successful in organizing their protests than others. In this book, Ashok Swain demonstrates how displaced people mobilize to ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Indigenous Enviromental Knowledge and its Transformations

    Critical Anthropological Perspectives

    Edited by Alan Bicker, Roy Ellen, Peter Parkes ...
    Series series Studies in Environmental Anthropology
    The first concerted critical examination of the uses and abuses of indigenous knowledge. The contributors focus on a series of interrelated issues in their interrogation of indigenous knowledge and its specific applications within the localised contexts of particular Asian societies and regional cultures. In particular they explore the problems of translation and mistranslation in the local-global ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Subaltern Movements in India

    Gendered Geographies of Struggle Against Neoliberal Development

    by Manisha Desai ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    Social struggles in India target both the state and private corporations. Three subaltern struggles against development in Gujarat, India, succeeded, to varying degrees, due to legalism from below and translocal solidarity, but that success has been compromised by its gendered geographies.Based on extensive field research, this book examines the reasons for the three social movements succeess. It ... Read more

    $65.99 USD