Reading Contemporary Environmental Justice
R. Sreejith Varma, "Reading Contemporary Environmental Justice "
English | ISBN: 1032293705 | 2023 | 164 pages | EPUB, PDF | 537 KB + 7 MB
English | ISBN: 1032293705 | 2023 | 164 pages | EPUB, PDF | 537 KB + 7 MB
This volume investigates 11 contemporary environmental justice narratives from Kerala, the south-western state in India. Introducing a detailed review of environmental literature in Malayalam, the selected eco-narratives are presented through two key literary genres: life narratives and novels, conveying the socio-environmental pressures, problems, and anxieties of modern, globalising Kerala. This text also entails primary investigations of ‘toxic fictions’ and ‘extractivist fictions,’ including Malayalam novels that narrate the disastrous consequences of the permeation of toxic pollutants in human and ecosystemic bodies, and novels that chronicle the impact of exploitative mining activities on the environment. All eco-narratives analysed in the book exhibit the familiar pattern of the Global South environmental narratives, namely, a close imbrication of the ecological and social spheres.
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