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Looking beyond the apocalypse: environmental crisis, colonial environmentalism and Eastern India’s tribal communities

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posted on 2023-06-10, 04:50 authored by Vinita DamodaranVinita Damodaran
This paper chapter engages with understandings of anthropogenic change from 1700, and argues that the debates around environmental crisis are not new by studying the responses of the colonial empires of Britain and France to drought, desiccation, and famine in the colonies. However, these responses to these were have been piece meal and have failed to challenge the capitalist roots of our environmental crisis. Current climate change debates and big science in a similar fashion also risk being top- down and steering clear of radical solutions such as changes to capitalism and the ever-increasing demand for raw materials and resources. Lessons from India’s tribal heartland need to be incorporated into how we conceptualise anthropogenic change. By rewriting the history of environmentalism from a historical perspective and by presenting a deep engagement with locality and community, one can challenge these top- down understandings and tap into new political and emancipatory futures

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  • Published

File Version

  • Accepted version

Publisher

Routledge

Pages

280.0

Book title

The Environmental Apocalypse Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Climate Crisis

Place of publication

London

ISBN

9781032038063

Department affiliated with

  • History Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Centre for World Environmental History Publications

Full text available

  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Jakub Kowalewski

Legacy Posted Date

2022-09-28

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2022-09-26

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