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  title info:
    title: Desertscapes in the Global South and beyond
    sub title: Anthropocene naturecultures
  name:
    name part: Shekhawat, Sushila
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Alex, Rayson K.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Rangarajan, Swarnalatha
    name part: 1969-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Slovic, Scott
    name part: 1960-
    role:
      role term: writer of foreword.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xix, 244 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Embracing a rich diversity of voices, this volume seeks to explore the different facets of Anthropocene nature cultures in the desert biomes of the Global South and beyond. Essays in this collection will articulate issues of desertification, indigeneity and reinhabitation in narratives that thread together Tibet, China, Australia, India, South Mexico, South Africa and Brazil in all their richness and complexity. Reimaging the desert figure's rich biodiversity, this book presents new ways to envision the human relationships to natural ecology and mindful accountability, tracing complex narrative connections and challenging hegemonic norms of its role in the co-construction of identity, affect and gender. Essays also aim to engage in an intertextual conversation with colonial genres that influence the popular conception of these spaces, moving beyond the usual tropes to forge a topographically informed desert identity and posit a 'natureculture' ecosystem based on the interpenetration of landscape, culture and history. This volume includes literary exploration of environmental injustices, analyzing motifs of deforestation, land degradation, falling crop production, toxic man-made chemicals and extractivist practices linked to various social and economic stressors and gradients in economic and political power. This diverse volume will provide a significant contribution to desert humanities from the Global South, responding to the pressing problems of the Anthropocene and employing place-based ecocritical frameworks that help us imagine a sustainable way of life.
  table of contents: Introduction / Sushila Shekhawat, Rayson K.Alex and Swarnalatha Rangarajan -- Topologies of nihilism : Anthropocene imaginaries and the figure of the desert / Aidan Tynan -- Inheriting isotopes : the Androcene and the End of nature in the Great Victoria Desert A-bomb test sites / CA. Cranston -- Old green deserts and new brown pools : post-colonization, neo-colonization, and decolonization / Iris Ralph -- Slow violence and the desert ecology : re-reading terra nullius in Hergé's Arab World / Nilanjana Chatterjee, Anindita Chatterjee, and Boijayanto Mukherjee -- Environmental and cultural disequilibriums in Southeast Asian literature / Chitra Sankaran -- This land shouldn't be a desert : the collapse of Western civilization in 18th century "California" / Luis Felipe Gómez Lomelí -- Graciliano Ramos and Bessie Head : political and affective dimensions of two different deserts / Izabel F. O. Brandão -- Songs of longing : love narratives and the geographical imaginaries of the Thar Desert / Tanuja Kothiyal -- Palai (arid and semi-arid) landscapes in early Tamil literature and history of south India / V. Selvakumar -- Under another sky : a triptych in the Thar Desert / Vidya Sarveswaran -- A different story in the Anthropocene : "ecological migrants" greening deserts in China / Zhou Xiaojing -- Tibet : a new Shambala for posthumanist imagination / Gang Yue -- Overcoming the nature/culture divide : what can we learn from Aboriginal culture in the Anthropocene? / Roslynn Haynes -- The sustainable way of life of the Bedouin gone / Sharif Elmusa.
  note: edited by Sushila Shekhawat, Rayson K. Alex and Swarnalatha Rangarajan.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: d------
  subject:
    topic: Deserts in literature
  subject:
    topic: Deserts in motion pictures
  subject:
    topic: Deserts
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Developing countries
  classification: PN56.D477 D47 2024
  classification: 809/.9332154
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 230530
    record change date: 20240304151415.4
    record identifier: in00004780062