Environmental Crisis and Human Rights : Literary and Cultural Representations Joyjit Ghosh, Samit Kumar Maiti and Sk Tarik Ali

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ali, Sk Tarik, editor.

Ghosh, Joyjit, editor.

Kumar, Maiti, editor.

Series:

Environment and Society.

Environment and Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Political aspects.

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

This anthology of scholarly ecocritical essays offers varied and global perspectives on the representations of violations of human rights, mainly caused by anthropogenic climate change, in literature and various forms of visual media.

Contents:

Acknowledgements List of Figures Foreword Amit R. Baishya Introduction Joyjit Ghosh, Samit Kumar Maiti and Sk Tarik Ali Chapter 1: Depicting Crime in Climate Change: How Mystery Fiction Interrogates Rights and Culpability in the Climate Crisis Matthew Munro Chapter 2: Our Fragile Islands and Islanders: Re-engaging with Climate Change and Slow Violence in Pankaj Sekhsaria's The Last Wave and Islands in Flux Abhra Paul and Amarjeet Nayak Chapter 3: Climate Justice, Human Rights, and Tribal Poets of Jharkhand Shreya Bhattacharji, Gunjan Kumar Jha and Hare Krishna Kuiry Chapter 4: Picturing Injustice: Climate Change and Human Rights in Two Contemporary Graphic Narratives Chitra V.R. and Devika Panikar Chapter 5: Navigating the Mountains of the Mind: An Eco-psychological Reading of Ankush Saikia's The Forest Beneath the Mountains Chandana Rajbanshi and Panchali Bhattacharya Chapter 6: "God has cursed us with oil": Perto-colonial Extractivism, Ecocidal Violence and the "Pipeline People" in Select Oil Stories of Nnedi Okorafor and Uwem Akpan Shankha Shubhra Mandal and Sk Tarik Ali Chapter 7: Building Big Dams for "The Greater Common Good": Politics of Development, Environmental Degradation and Displacement Jolly Das Chapter 8: Climate Change Narrative and Hydro Crisis: Representation in Bollywood Film Jal Shruti Das Chapter 9: Violation of Rights of the Adivasis and Exploitation of Nature in Mahasweta Devi's Pterodactyl, Puran Sahay, and Pirtha: An Intersectional Analysis Debdas Roy Chapter 10: Towards a "Transformative Utopia": Locating Emancipation in Select Contemporary Australian Young Adult and Children's Fiction Soumyadeep Chakraborty Chapter 11: Cinematic Silence and Necropolitical Dynamics: Interrogating Coal Mining Realities in Bollywood Films Debabrata Modak and Santi Sarkar Chapter 12: A Far Cry from Sri Lanka: Reclaiming Human Rights for the Climate Refugees through Benjamin Dix and Lindsay Pollock's Graphic Narrative Vanni Somsuvra Midya and Binod Mishra Chapter 13: "Slow Violence" and Subaltern Resistance: A Reading of Imbolo Mbue's World in How Beautiful We Were Indrajit Mukherjee Chapter 14: Navigating the Anthropocene: Climate Resilience and the Plight of Eco-refugees in Amitav Ghosh's Gun Island Amar Chakrabortty Chapter 15: From Pandora to Jengaburu: Indigenous Rights, Resource Extraction and Subaltern Environmentalism in Avatar and The Jengaburu Curse Mir Ahammad Ali Chapter 16: Precarity of Life in the Himalayas: Environmental Hazards and Human Rights in Nuzhat Khan's Whistling Woods Pabitra Kumar Rana Chapter 17: Eco-Critical Perspectives and Cultural Politics of Indigenous Struggles: A Comparative Study of Literary Texts Pushpa N. Parekh Chapter 18: Who Pays the Price?: Conservation Pitted against Environmental Displacement in The Hungry Tide Sourav Pal About the Contributors

ISBN:

979-88-8189-773-4

1-9787-6827-3

979-82-16-25273-3

9781978768277

OCLC:

1551394867