Environmental Studies from India
Engaging with the Planetary Ecological Crisis
Series: Oxford Studies in Contemporary Indian Society;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 February 2026
- ISBN 9780198984092
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages394 pages
- Size 26x140x216 mm
- Weight 585 g
- Language English 666
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Short description:
This volume brings together leading scholars to explore the human-environment interactions in the Anthropocene and addresses the global ecological crisis by offering interdisciplinary insights and empirical studies from India.
MoreLong description:
The ecological crisis at a planetary scale has heightened our awareness of the geological impact of human activities and the possibility of human species extinction. Within the heightened consciousness of hubris and vulnerability encoded in the Anthropocene discourse, how do we comprehend the human place in nature and analyse the multiple scales of time, space, and capital movements that characterize specific socio-natures?Addressing the methodological challenge of studying metabolic relations, flows, and processes across these multiple scales, Environmental Studies from India brings together distinguished scholars who explore such questions from diverse disciplinary perspectives. Empirical studies grounded in specific contexts are employed to develop a perspective suited to a society saturated with Anthropocene discourses.
The volume is structured around five interwoven themes: reframing space, rethinking the region; commons and commodification; environmental subjectivities and socio-natures; metabolic social ecologies and infrastructural labour; and the Anthropocene as everyday experience. Each section comprises essays that approach the theme from different angles, encouraging conversations rather than coherence across disciplinary boundaries. From rivers and marshes to forests, grasslands, orchards, fields, cities, and industries, contributors draw from diverse landscapes in India to develop pathways for Environmental Studies that can effectively engage with the contemporary planetary crisis.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Environmental Studies in the Time of Planetary Crisis
Part I. Reframing Space, Rethinking the Region
Monsoon Geographies, Assam, and Making of an Eco-Region
Castescapes, Dalit Labour, and Environmental Inequality
Region as a Contested Socio-ecological Space: India's East Coast in the Capitalocene?
Part II. Commons and Commodification
The Complexities of Commodification: State, Market, and Community Institutions in Arunachal Pradesh
Property in Fluid Nature: Legal Regimes and Chapories on the Brahmaputra in Majuli Island, Assam
Solar Futures and Persistent Injustices in Kerala
Part III. Environmental Subjectivities and Socio-Natures
Territorialization and Interlocking Environmentalities: Political Ecology of Forest Governance in Satpura Hills, Madhya Pradesh, 1990-2015
Forest Gardens of Malnad: Agrarian Ecology and the Afterlives of Appiko Chaluvali
Weaving the Threads of Entanglement: From the Lens of the Fishers in the Indian Sundarban Deltas
Fortress Conservation of Charismatic Carnivores in a Political Forest of Central India
Part IV. Metabolic Social Ecologies and Infrastructural Labour
Frontiers, Encounters, Metabolism: A Material-semiotic Approach to Fields and Forests in the Western Ghats
The Seed and the Well: Navigating Agrarian Risk in the Anthropocene
Metabolic Lives: Labour-grabbing under Formal Waste Management Regimes
Part V. The Anthropocene as Everyday Experience
Markers of Anthropocene? Revisiting Early-modern South Asia
Public Policy in Response to Planetary Crises: Scale Matters in Augmenting Biodiversity and Improving Resilience of Financial Ecosystems
Water and Climate Change: Lived Experience of Untimely Weather, Dehydrated Earth, and Weathered Labour
