Narratives of Environmental Challenges in Brazil and India (eBook)

Losing Nature

Zelia M. Bora, Murali Sivaramakrishnan (Herausgeber)

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2018
204 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-8115-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Narratives of Environmental Challenges in Brazil and India: Losing Nature is comprised of research on the representation and interrogation of environmental issues in both subcontinents, Brazil and India.

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Narratives of Environmental Challenges in Brazil and India: Losing Nature, edited by Zelia Bora and Murali Sivaramakrishnan, contextualizes the two subcontinents of India and Brazil and closely examines environmental issues from within and without. This collection focuses largely on the fate of forests and water in these two geographical terrains.This book explores narratives that reflect transformations: hitherto unprecedented demographic expansions, exploitation of natural resources, pollution and depletion of river and fresh water sources, uncontrollable demands on the energy front, waste and garbage disposal, drastic reduction of biodiversity. All of these are factors to research when one considers ';losing nature.' In philosophical as well as theoretical terms the question of what is nature, what is gained and lost in human-nature interaction, what is the essential ';balance' of nature, are all important queries on a similar scale. Societal reality in present day Brazil and India is reconstructed and deconstructed at will by the powerful influence of the past alongside that of globalization and technocratic market structures. The volume contemplates the representation and interrogation of environmental issues in both subcontinents, Brazil and India.

Autor

Murali Sivaramakrishnan is poet, painter, professor and former chair of English at Pondicherry University.Zélia M. Bora is professor of Brazilian studies in the graduate program at University Federal of Paraíba.

Inhalt

Section 1: Contested Spaces: Resisting the Loss of Water and ForestsThe Loss of Nature, Human and Non human Relationship in Tamil Nadu V.Arivudai NambiHuman Intervention and the Depleting Well Springs of Nature A Case Study of Orange PoikaReinhart PhillipGreen Risk: Analyzing the Societal Harms in the Illegal Wood Trade of the Amazonian Rain Forest (Peru/Brazil)Siddharth Singh Monteiro BoraSabarimala: A Review of Development Threats to a Rare Forest EcosystemRajan GurukkalSection 2: Speaking Nature: The Cultural Dimensions of Water and LandThe Amazonian Forest Revisited: a critical reading of the novels by Dalcídio JurandirZélia M. BoraThe Saga of Subalterns amidst Resource Crisis: An Analysis of “Drought: Mahesh” and WaterNibedita BandyopadhyayRe-reading Nature, Restoring Nature: “The Inheritance of Loss” by Kiran Desai.Carmen Escobedo de TapiaNature, Religion and Ecological Sustainability in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry TideAnimesh Roy Section 3: The Voice of the Subaltern: Losing Nature“Good God! The Tambochas”: Ants and Environmental Vengeance in José Eustasio Rivera’s The VortexFrank IzaguirreAround and Inside Amazonian Rainforest: The Literary Manifestos of Vicente Franz Cecim Heloisa Helena Siqueira CorreiaAmazonian Mythology and the Theatre of A Rã Qi RiLigia Karina Martins de AndradeRole of Women in the Early Environment Movements in IndiaRekha Pande

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Co-Autor: Ligia Andrade, Reinhart Philip, Animesh Roy, Murali Sivaramakrishnan, Carmen Escobedo de Tapia, Nibedita Bandyopadhyay, Zelia M. Bora, Heloisa Helena Siqueira Correia, Rajan Gurukkal, Frank Izaguirre, Siddharth Singh M.Bora, V. Arivudai Nambi, Dr. Rekha Pande
• Zusatzinfo: 1 Illustrations including: - 1 Black & White Illustrations.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: biodiversity • conservation • Ecocriticism • Ecological Studies • Ecology • Environmental Studies • environment and society • environment humanities • global south environmentalism • human ecology • Humanities • Indigenous Communities • Literary criticism • Neoliberalism • the amazon rainforest
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-8115-3 / 1498581153
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-8115-8 / 9781498581158