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Accepted Contribution:
Centring the ‘political’: emerging perspectives from south Asian environmental humanities
Rahul Ranjan
(School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh)
South Asian history is an entangled history of colonisation. The colonial processes introduced a new era and scale of changes – especially the river. This paper locates how historical interventions in the natural world continue to inform emergent practices that make rivers a subject of control.
Contribution long abstract:
South Asian history is an entangled history of colonisation of human and non-human habitations. The colonial processes introduced a new era and scale of changes to the landscape – especially the river. Through the large-scale financialisation of canals, rivers emerged as subjects of control and profit. This paper locates how historical interventions in the natural world continue to inform emergent practices that make rivers a subject of control. In particular, the paper centres on the effective use of the political – that is undermined in approaching the emergent needs of environmental humanities from the Global South.