Climate Change and the Creative Economy in India

Disadvantaged, Disturbed and Dislocated Indian Weavers
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-58432-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 118 Seiten, Format (B × H): 223 mm x 145 mm, Gewicht: 264 g

Reihe: Routledge Focus on the Global Creative Economy

Weaving has been a significant aspect of India’s cultural and economic history. Climate change is increasingly affecting crucial relationships within the weaver communities. This book explores the dialectical relationship between the craft of weaving and the changing climate.

Exploring questions of how climate variabilities are affecting local geographies and weaving ecosystems, the book discusses case studies of creative economy clusters in India. The author employs ethnographic fieldwork to share lived and embodied experiences of climate change.

This concise book will be useful reading to scholars, researchers and students with an interest in the creative and cultural industries and how these intersect with environmental issues and climate change.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sharma, Pragya

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Fertigungsindustrie Textilindustrie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. The Indian Weaver through History 3. Migration and the Indian Weaver 4. Women, Weaving and Climate Change 5. Loom (ing) Hierarchies in Nadia 6. Weaving Indigenous Wisdom in Kutch 7. The Kasavu Textiles of Kuthampully Handloom Village 8. Afterword

Über Autor(innen)

Pragya Sharma is a Doctoral Researcher in History of Design at the University of Brighton, UK.