Climate Change and Cultural Practices in South Asia
Iftikhar Dadi editor Sarah Besky editor Sonal Khullar editor Rupali Gupte editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publishing:11th Nov '26
£171.99
This title is due to be published on 11th November, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Featuring contributions from 15 leading and emerging scholars of the environmental humanities, this groundbreaking volume explores human creativity and artistry in the face of climate change through a focus on multiple narratives, mediums, and forms in South Asia.
Home to a quarter of the world’s population and rich in cultural and geographic diversity, South Asia offers a compelling case for exploring the impacts of climate change on diverse cultural forms. From the river deltas of Bangladesh, megalopolises in India, mountain tops of Nepal, glaciers in Pakistan, and cities in Sri Lanka, climate change has indelibly altered landscapes and people. Bringing together a rich array of methodologies from different disciplines—including ethnography, creative nonfiction, visual analysis, and ecocriticism—this book positions climate change discourse within everyday practices, epistemologies, and infrastructures. Showcasing multidisciplinary perspectives, chapters explore the profound impacts of environmental change, centering human creativity as a vital lens for understanding one of the most urgent crises of our time. Ultimately, this book underscores the necessity of cultural, collaborative, and cross-border practices in addressing climate change.
This important volume will be of interest to scholars and postgraduate students in the fields of art and visual culture, South Asian studies, human geography, architecture, and environmental anthropology. It will also appeal to NGO, multilateral, and international institutions investigating the cultural and creative ramifications of climate change in South Asia.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license
"Imaginative artworks and projects engaging with monsoon rains, rivers, mangroves, dams, and other environmental actors create a vital lens for confronting climate change in South Asia, a region that bears its severest brunt. Multi-national, multi-disciplinary, and historically conscious, this volume demonstrates the importance of the humanities and the arts in understanding and acting upon the most urgent environmental crises of our age."
-- Esra Akcan, Professor, Department of Architecture, Cornell University
"Climate Change and Cultural Practices in South Asia is a welcome addition to the environmental humanities of the Global South. Its focus on human creativity explores a neglected dimension of the experience of climate change. Its attention to topographies, materialities, and mediatic forms is innovative in bringing forward the formal qualities of the creative expressions that climate change has already engendered.
-- Naveeda Khan, Professor, Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
"I read the essays collected in Climate Change and Cultural Practices in South Asia with intense interest and deep admiration. They demonstrate that responding to ecological devastation requires locally grounded practices shaped by human creativity, intellectual rigor, and cross-border collaboration. Committed to a pedagogy of life, this volume offers a generous invitation to learn, rethink, and imagine more just futures."
-- Elke Krasny, Professor for Art and Education at theAcademy of Fine Arts Vienna. Co-editor of Critical Care. Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet.
"This remarkable collection cuts skilfully across South Asia’s diverse and uneven geographical infrastructures, humanising the many granular reactions to techno-neoliberal climate change adaptation and opportunism. It offers critical and poetic insights into ecological vulnerability, exploitation and displacement, emphasising more-than-human agency and social activism in a unique framing of the untapped creative potential of landscape-centred epistemes."
-- Anoma Pieris, Professor and Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne.
ISBN: 9781041381440
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240 pages