Dalit Ecologies
Dalit Ecologies
$120.00
USDDalit Ecologies explores the ecological experiences, histories, and perspectives integrated within Dalit writing, art, and culture. Aligning with theories of environment justice and ecological struggles experienced by Black populations, the book delves into six major themes: caste, earth and earthly environment, labour, and mobility, casteization of technology and industry, climate justice, Dalit Bahujan Anthropocene, and eco-literary tradition. It looks at the relationship between caste and environment, Dalit autobiographies, folktales and novels, city, waste and discard, caste-based industry and occupation, technological injustice, weather, caste and climate change, and Black-Dalit ecologies. Expanding the boundaries of environmental studies, the book brings attention to individuals like Adwaita Mallabarman, Bama, Nek Chand and Deena-Bhadri on the one hand, and specific places and arenas like the rock garden, tannery, brick kiln, steel industry, and sanitation on the other.
- Explores the interrelationship with caste, environment and Dalits
- Extensively field worked essays and comparatively analysed, covering a wide range of subjects
Product details
January 2025Hardback
9781009453455
300 pages
235 × 159 × 25 mm
0.6kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Literature: 'My World Is a Different World': Caste and Dalit Eco-Literary Traditions
- 3. Culture: 'God of Humans': Dina-Bhadri, Dalit Folktales and Environmental Movements
- 4. Rivers and Commons: Titash and Malos
- 5. Anthropocene: 'Modern' Chandigarh, Nek Chand, Rock Garden and Dalit bahujan Anthropocenes
- 6. Industry: Caste of Labour, Dalits, Industrial Ecosystem and Environmental Politics
- 7. Technology: Tanneries, Tanners and Technological Injustices
- 8. Climate Change: Weather, Climate, Caste Economy and Dalit Experiences
- 9. Caste and Race: Environment Justice and Intersections of Dalit-Black Ecologies
- Bibliography.
