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Dalit Ecologies

Caste and Environment Justice

Mukul Sharma (Ashoka University, India)

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English
Cambridge University Press
02 January 2025
Dalit Ecologies explores the ecological experiences, histories, and perspectives integrated within Dalit writing, art, and culture. Aligning with theories of environment justice and ecological struggles experienced by Black populations, the book delves into six major themes: caste, earth and earthly environment, labour, and mobility, casteization of technology and industry, climate justice, Dalit Bahujan Anthropocene, and eco-literary tradition. It looks at the relationship between caste and environment, Dalit autobiographies, folktales and novels, city, waste and discard, caste-based industry and occupation, technological injustice, weather, caste and climate change, and Black-Dalit ecologies. Expanding the boundaries of environmental studies, the book brings attention to individuals like Adwaita Mallabarman, Bama, Nek Chand and Deena-Bhadri on the one hand, and specific places and arenas like the rock garden, tannery, brick kiln, steel industry, and sanitation on the other.
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Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
ISBN:   9781009453455
ISBN 10:   1009453459
Pages:   300
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Mukul Sharma is Professor of Environmental Studies at Ashoka University, India. He is the author of Caste & Nature: Dalits and Indian Environmental Politics (Oxford University Press, 2017), Green and Saffron: Hindu Nationalism and Indian Environmental Politics (Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2012), and Human Rights in a Globalised World: An Indian Diary (Delhi: Sage, 2010). His research interests lie at the intersection of ecology, religion, politics, and media in the making of environmental politics in India and South Asia. He has been the South Asia Director of Climate Parliament.

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