Narratives of Environmental Challenges in Brazil and India (eBook, ePUB)

Losing Nature
Redaktion: Bora, Zélia M.; Sivaramakrishnan, Murali

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498581158
• Artikelnr.: 56800826

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1: Contested Spaces: Resisting the Loss of Water and Forests
The Loss of Nature, Human and Non human Relationship in Tamil Nadu
V.Arivudai Nambi
Human Intervention and the Depleting Well Springs of Nature A Case Study of
Orange PoikaReinhart Phillip
Green Risk: Analyzing the Societal Harms in the Illegal Wood Trade of the
Amazonian Rain Forest (Peru/Brazil)Siddharth Singh Monteiro Bora
Sabarimala: A Review of Development Threats to a Rare Forest EcosystemRajan
Gurukkal
Section 2: Speaking Nature: The Cultural Dimensions of Water and Land
The Amazonian Forest Revisited: a critical reading of the novels by
Dalcídio JurandirZélia M. Bora
The Saga of Subalterns amidst Resource Crisis: An Analysis of "Drought:
Mahesh" and WaterNibedita Bandyopadhyay
Re-reading Nature, Restoring Nature: "The Inheritance of Loss" by Kiran
Desai.Carmen Escobedo de Tapia
Nature, 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 Izaguirre
Around and Inside Amazonian Rainforest: The Literary Manifestos of Vicente
Franz Cecim Heloisa Helena Siqueira Correia
Amazonian Mythology and the Theatre of A Rã Qi RiLigia Karina Martins de
Andrade
Role of Women in the Early Environment Movements in IndiaRekha Pande