Politics of the Anthropocene and Climate Crisis in India

Seeking Socio-Ecological Transformations
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-68950-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

This book focuses on the complex and contested nature of transformation in India, from a social and political ecology perspective.

Given that the age of Anthropocene is increasingly threatening to undermine the present world order, the countries in the Global South are at the forefront of debates on transformations. By examining issues pertaining to land, labour and urbanisation from an interdisciplinary perspective, the chapters in this book break down the notion of the Anthropocene into useful analytical categories that represent both the disruptive and constructive natures of the transformation debate. Drawing on empirical research, each author focuses on a particular state or region in the East Coast, East and Northeast of India to show how states and communities seek transformation sometimes in competition and/or contestation with each other. The authors in this volume illustrate that although all stakeholders seek transformation, their ideas and discourses nevertheless reflect their situated ethics and unique knowledges of their local, regional and national contexts.

Politics of the Anthropocene and Climate Crisis in India will be of interest to students of environmental politics, environmental sociology, political ecology, and South Asian studies more broadly.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Das, Lalatendu Keshari

Prasad, Purendra

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Contextualising the Debates of Anthropocene and Climate Change: A Critical Introduction  Section 1: Climate Smart Infrastructure and the Anthropocene Chapter 2. ‘Climate-Smart’ Aquaculture in Coastal Regions of India: Capitalist Logic of Repair and Restoration Chapter 3. Caste Power and Land Grab: The Case of a Solar Power Plant in Assam Chapter 4. Land-water Grabbing and the Zero Electricity Generating Khuga Dam of Manipur, India  Section 2: Urban Transformation and Social-Environmental Justice Chapter 5. From Dispossession to Resilience: Navigating Anthropocenic Spatial Justice Chapter 6. Imaginaries, Transformations, Realities: Death and Life of Nature in Peri-Urban Mumbai Chapter 7. Conceptualising Dalitbahujan Anthropocene: Nek Chand, Displacement, Waste, and Rocks for Environmental Imaginations Chapter 8 Green Fields to Grey Zones: Ripple Effects of Industrial Growth, Telangana, India  Section 3: Ecofeminism / Ecotourism and Subaltern Practices Chapter 9. Debating Sustainable Development through Ecotourism in the Age of the Anthropocene: Community-based Ecotourism Projects in Chilika Lake, India Chapter 10. Beyond Ecofeminism: Examining New Norms in the Everyday Struggle of Tharu Women in Dudhwa National Park, Uttar Pradesh Chapter 11. Kantabaunsuni Temple in Damanjodi: An Ecofeminist Analysis of the Dialectics of Development and Conservation  Section 4: Ethnicity and Environmental Transformations Chapter 12. Ethnoecology and Everyday Life in Northeast India: Lineages, Manifestations and Transformations Chapter 13. Development Interventions, Environmental Transformations and Emerging Crisis: Community Responses to the 'Transformations' in Nagaland Chapter 14. Climate Change and Associated Vulnerabilities: Impact of Relief Tourism on the Sundarbans

Über Autor(innen)

Purendra Prasad is the Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Chair in the School of Public Policy at University of Massachusetts Amherst and Professor of Sociology at the University of Hyderabad, India. Prasad’s research spans critical agrarian studies, environmental studies, political economy of health and development, and urban studies. As part of a multi-country project, his recent work investigates wealth accumulation and the role of business elites in India. His latest book is Equity and Access: Health Care Studies in India (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Lalatendu Keshari Das is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. His area of research spans agrarian studies, gender studies, political ecology. His recent work looks at the practices of organic and natural farming in the Eastern Ghats of Odisha, India. Lalatendu is the recipient of Development in Practice Practitioner and Early Career Researcher Prize for 2024.