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 as well as 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.
This volume develops the concepts and methods of Critical Zone Analysis in the South Asia context.
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
Cįceres
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 Shafaks The Island of Missing Trees
11. Ecohumanism & Apocalyptic Reading of Margaret Atwoods MaddAddam Trilogy
12. Climate and Culture Crisis: A Study of Amitav Ghoshs Selected Works
through Ecocriticism
13. Environment, Capitalist Development and Class
Struggle in Arundhati Roys The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
14. An
ecocritical Reading of Barbara Kingsolvers Flight Behaviour and Olga
Tokarkzuks Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of Dead
15. An Ecofeminist Reading
of Endangered Lives
Stephen Muecke is Senior Research Fellow at the Nulungu Research Institute Notre Dame University, Broome.
Jennifer Eadie is Research Fellow in the Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame, Broome, Australia.
