Living in Critical Zones : Environmental Humanities in South Asia (Hardcover)

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 Caceres 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?