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Author:   Joyjit Ghosh ,  Samit Kumar Maiti ,  Sk Tarik Ali
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN:  

9781666969351

ISBN 10:   1666969354
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   08 January 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of 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: Apocalypse Forever: Worldview, “Slow” Decay, and Structural Upheaval Michael Dunn and Benjamin Weyland Chapter 10: 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 11: Towards a “Transformative Utopia”: Locating Emancipation in Select Contemporary Australian Young Adult and Children’s Fiction Soumyadeep Chakraborty Chapter 12: Cinematic Silence and Necropolitical Dynamics: Interrogating Coal Mining Realities in Bollywood Films Debabrata Modak and Santi Sarkar Chapter 13: 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 14: “Slow Violence” and Subaltern Resistance: A Reading of Imbolo Mbue’s World in How Beautiful We Were Indrajit Mukherjee Chapter 15: Navigating the Anthropocene: Climate Resilience and the Plight of Eco-refugees in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island Amar Chakrabortty Chapter 16: From Pandora to Jengaburu: Indigenous Rights, Resource Extraction and Subaltern Environmentalism in Avatar and The Jengaburu Curse Mir Ahammad Ali Chapter 17: Precarity of Life in the Himalayas: Environmental Hazards and Human Rights in Nuzhat Khan’s Whistling Woods Pabitra Kumar Rana Chapter 18: Eco-Critical Perspectives and Cultural Politics of Indigenous Struggles: A Comparative Study of Literary Texts Pushpa N. Parekh Chapter 19: Who Pays the Price?: Conservation Pitted against Environmental Displacement in The Hungry Tide Sourav Pal About the Contributors

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""This important collection builds upon postcolonial and Global South ecocriticism of the past few decades in vividly reinforcing the idea that environmental crisis and human rights are inextricably bound together. In other words, whenever we talk about environmental crises, we must also keep human rights (and human suffering) in mind. The literary literary and cultural texts examined here beautifully and painfully illustrate the human impacts of climate change and other contemporary forms of environmental catastrophe."" * Scott Slovic, Oregon Research Institute, coeditor of Ecocriticism of the Global South *

""This important collection builds upon postcolonial and Global South ecocriticism of the past few decades in vividly reinforcing the idea that environmental crisis and human rights are inextricably bound together. In other words, whenever we talk about environmental crises, we must also keep human rights (and human suffering) in mind. The literary and cultural texts examined here beautifully and painfully illustrate the human impacts of climate change and other contemporary forms of environmental catastrophe."" * Scott Slovic, Oregon Research Institute, coeditor of Ecocriticism of the Global South *

Author Information

Joyjit Ghosh is Professor in the Department of English Literature, Language and Cultural Studies at Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal, India. Samit Kumar Maiti is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Seva Bharati Mahavidyalaya, Kapgari, Jhargram, West Bengal, India. Sk Tarik Ali is Assistant Professor in the West Bengal Education Service, and teaches in the PG Department of English, Hooghly Mohsin College, Chinsurah, Hooghly, West Bengal, India.

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