Climate Change and Cultural Practices in South Asia

• Utgivningsdatum: 2026-11-19
• Mått: 156 x 234 x undefined mm
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Serie: Routledge Series on the Indian Ocean and Trans-Asia
• Antal sidor: 240
• Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• ISBN: 9781041381440

• Kulturvetenskap
• Antropologi
• Geografi
• Miljövetenskap och miljöpolitik

Iftikhar Dadi is the John H. Burris Professor of Cornell University’s Department of History of Art. He has authored Lahore Cinema: Between Realism and Fable (2022) and Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia (2010) and edited the Lahore Biennale 01 Reader (2022) and Anwar Jalal Shemza (2015). He has co-edited the Lahore Biennale 02 Reader (2024) and Art and Architecture of Migration and Discrimination: Turkey, Pakistan, and Their European Diasporas (2023).Sarah Besky is Professor of the Anthropology of Work in the ILR School at Cornell University and the author of The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India (2014), Tasting Qualities: The Past and Future of Tea (2020), and How Nature Works: Rethinking Labor on a Troubled Planet (2019, co-edited with Alex Blanchette). Her articles have appeared in Cultural Anthropology, American Ethnologist, American Anthropologist, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Antipode, and Environmental Humanities.Rupali Gupte is an architect, urbanist, and artist, and a founding member, professor, and director at the School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai. Her interdisciplinary work engages South Asian architecture and urbanism, housing, repair, gender, and spatial practices through writing, drawing, installations, curation, and spatial interventions. Recent publications focus on pedagogies of spatial justice, the theorization of small forces that shape cities, and the reconceptualization of housing as “inhabitation.” Her articles have been published in Public Culture, Cultural Anthropology, and Journal of Housing and the Built Environment.Sonal Khullar is the W. Norman Brown Associate Professor of South Asian Studies in the Department of History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Worldly Affiliations: Artistic Practice, National Identity and Modernism in India, 1930–1990 (2015) and editor of Old Stacks, New Leaves: The Arts of the Book in South Asia (2023). Her monograph The Art of Dislocation: Conflict and Collaboration in Contemporary Art from South Asia will be published in 2027.

"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 the Academy 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.

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