Narratives of Environmental Challenges in Brazil and India - Losing Nature (Hardcover)

Narratives of Environmental Challenges in Brazil and India: Losing Nature, edited by Zelia Bora and Murali Sivaramakrishnan, contextualizes the two subcontinents of India and Brazil and closely examines environmental issues from within and without. This collection focuses largely on the fate of forests and water in these two geographical terrains. This book explores narratives that reflect transformations: hitherto unprecedented demographic expansions, exploitation of natural resources, pollution and depletion of river and fresh water sources, uncontrollable demands on the energy front, waste and garbage disposal, drastic reduction of biodiversity. All of these are factors to research when one considers "losing nature." In philosophical as well as theoretical terms the question of what is nature, what is gained and lost in human-nature interaction, what is the essential "balance" of nature, are all important queries on a similar scale. Societal reality in present day Brazil and India is reconstructed and deconstructed at will by the powerful influence of the past alongside that of globalization and technocratic market structures. The volume contemplates the representation and interrogation of environmental issues in both subcontinents, Brazil and India.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Release date:	November 2018
Contributors:	Ligia Andrade • Nibedita Bandyopadhyay • Siddharth Singh M Bora
Editors:	Zelia M. Bora
Contributors:	Zelia M. Bora • Carmen Escobedo de Tapia • Rajan Gurukkal • Frank Izaguirre • V Arivudai Nambi • Dr Rekha Pande
Dimensions:	231 x 159 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	204
ISBN-13:	978-1-4985-8114-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	1-4985-8114-5
Barcode:	9781498581141

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