Politics of the Anthropocene and Climate Crisis in India
Seeking Socio-Ecological Transformations
Purendra Prasad editor Lalatendu Keshari Das editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:21st Oct '25
£145.00
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This book focuses on the complex and contested nature of transformation in India, from a social and political ecology perspective.
Given that the age of Anthropocene is increasingly threatening to undermine the present world order, the countries in the Global South are at the forefront of debates on transformations. By examining issues pertaining to land, labour, and urbanisation from an interdisciplinary perspective, the chapters in this book break down the notion of the Anthropocene into useful analytical categories that represent both the disruptive and constructive natures of the transformation debate. Drawing on empirical research, each author focuses on a particular state or region in the East Coast, East, and Northeast of India to show how states and communities seek transformation sometimes in competition and/or contestation with each other. The authors in this volume illustrate that although all stakeholders seek transformation, their ideas and discourses nevertheless reflect their situated ethics and unique knowledges of their local, regional, and national contexts.
Politics of the Anthropocene and Climate Crisis in India will be of interest to students of environmental politics, environmental sociology, political ecology, and South Asian studies more broadly.
“The ecological crisis is above all a wicked political problem – one without a solution. If environment and capitalist economies are to be less at loggerheads, responses have to involve local realities, projects and people. University disciplines don’t help the revolutionary knowledge needed for this. In squarely examining an array of destructive political economic forces to be countered, their violent successes and failures -mirrored in development as resistance - this imaginative, interdisciplinary book breaks the mould and gives resolve to writers and the reader alike. What more can we ask of concerned and critical scholars? “
- Barbara Harriss-White, Emeritus Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford and Honorary Associate, Oxford Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University, UK.
“An excellent collection, each drawing from a distinct geographical and ecological setting, engages in conversation with the concept of the Anthropocene and climate change and its associated ideas, ideologies, power and practices based on its rich fieldwork-based empirical data. An apt lesson for researchers on how to engage in the intersection of environmental change, social theory and lived experiences.”
- Virginius Xaxa, Former Professor of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, and Former Deputy Director, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Guwahati and a member of the National Advisory Council of the Government of India.
“The alarming crisis of climate change has to be seen in the way it intersects with other crises- inequality, deprivation, authoritarianism, short-term profit-making, and others engendered by capitalism, patriarchy and colonialism. And conversely, solutions too will have to be intersectional, going beyond simplistic 'solutions' like renewable energy and carbon trading. This book does a great service by examining and going deep into these links, providing a nuanced view of how to deal with the climate (and related ecological) crises.”
- Ashish Kothari, Eminent Indian Environmentalist, founder of Kalpavriksh, Associate Fellow of the Tellus, Research Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and co-author of the book Churning the Earth – The Making of Global India.
ISBN: 9781032689500
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 670g
254 pages