LEADER 05418nam 22007095 450 001 9910898595103321 005 20250626164304.0 010 $a9789819739332 010 $a9819739330 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-97-3933-2 035 $a(CKB)36457096600041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31850606 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31850606 035 $a(OCoLC)1472497087 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-97-3933-2 035 $a(EXLCZ)9936457096600041 100 $a20241025d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEnvironmental Humanities in India /$fedited by Debajyoti Biswas, John C. Ryan 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Nature Singapore :$cImprint: Springer,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (326 pages) 225 1 $aAsia in Transition,$x2364-8260 ;$v25 311 08$a9789819739325 311 08$a9819739322 327 $aIntroduction: Environmental Humanities in India -- 2. Indigenous Native Epistemology as A Model in Environmental Humanities in India -- 3. The Environment in Hindu Consciousness: Revisiting the Sacred Texts -- 4. Cultural Practices and Indigenous Traditions of the Garo and Bodo: Reinterpreting 'Man-Nature' Convergences in Wangala and Bathou -- 5. Indigenous Nature Conservation in Meghalaya: Environmental and Religious Dimensions of Tribal Land Ownership Among the Khasi Community -- 6. Philosophy for Environmental Policy and Law in India -- 7. The Secular in Ecological Consciousness -- 8. Multispecies Conviviality, Bioregionalism, And Vegetal Politics in Kodagu, India -- 9. ?When The Black Half of The Kunni Seed Whitens?: Plant-Lore and The Plantationocene in Ambikasuthan Mangad?s Swarga -- 10. Mourning the Loss of Mother Earth: Reclaiming the Path of Recovery in Akkineni Kutumbarao?s Softy Dies a Lake -- 11. ?Leave City, Leave Reality; Enter Forest, Enter Fantasy?: Representing Ecotopian Space as a Protest against Urbanization in Bibhutibhusan Bandyopadhyay?s Literary Oeuvre -- 12. Connecting and Creating Narratives: Interrogating Myth and Identity in Ghosh?s Gun Island -- 13. Amitav Ghosh?s Storyworlds for Environmental Dwelling: Multimodal Iterations and Performativity in/of Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarban -- 14. Ecomusicology in India: Voicing the Unvoiced Anthropocene through Popular Culture. 330 $aThis open access book offers an introduction to the field of the environmental humanities in India. The environmental humanities, often referred to as ?EH?, are a multifaceted, relatively new, and swiftly evolving field of scholarship that integrates the theories and approaches of various disciplines - from anthropology, art, communications, cultural studies, philosophy and ecology to history, literature, media, music, performance, politics, sociology, theology and theater. Practitioners of this considerably integrative and widely ranging field aim to address and, in certain cases, confront today's urgent ecological and cultural challenges, namely climate change, urban sustainability, biodiversity conservation, species decline, energy policy, the exigencies of the Anthropocene, environmental activism, and Indigenous peoples' justice. Although the environmental humanities have been relatively slow to gain traction in South Asia, an increasing momentum towards transdisciplinary approaches to ecology and sustainability is palpable in India. Comprising fourteen chapters, this contributed volume is the first major publication to call attention to current work in the environmental humanities in India. The volume foregrounds particular ecohumanist theories and methodologies evolving from Indian biocultural contexts. Towards this aim, the book consists of four thematic sections: Indigenous Perspectives: Conservation, Spirituality, and Language; Theoretical Grounding: Education, Law, and Ethics; Literary Formulations: Memoir, Parable, and Storyworlds; and Popular Narratives: Myth, Travel, and Music. The volume is of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates, early career scholars, and more established researchers in the environmental humanities and the allied fields of ecopoetics, ecocriticism, ecomusicology, environmental art, cultural ecology, postcolonial studies, and South Asian studies. This is an open access book. 410 0$aAsia in Transition,$x2364-8260 ;$v25 606 $aEcocriticism 606 $aOriental literature 606 $aSex 606 $aMusic$xHistory and criticism 606 $aArt, Modern$y21st century 606 $aEcocriticism 606 $aAsian Literature 606 $aGender Studies 606 $aContemporary Music 606 $aContemporary Art 615 0$aEcocriticism. 615 0$aOriental literature. 615 0$aSex. 615 0$aMusic$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aArt, Modern 615 14$aEcocriticism. 615 24$aAsian Literature. 615 24$aGender Studies. 615 24$aContemporary Music. 615 24$aContemporary Art. 676 $a809.933553 700 $aBiswas$b Debajyoti$01789313 701 $aRyan$b John C$01789314 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910898595103321 996 $aEnvironmental Humanities in India$94324809 997 $aUNINA