Reading Contemporary Environmental Justice - Narratives From Kerala

Reading Contemporary Environmental Justice investigates eleven contemporary environmental justice narratives from Kerala, the southwestern state in India.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Oiko-autobiographies: Subaltern Environmentalism in the Life Narratives of Four Ecoactivists
Chapter 3: Toxic Fictions: Environmental Toxicity in Three Malayalam Novels
Chapter 4: Extractivist Fictions: Anti-mining Struggles in Three Malayalam Novels
Chapter 5: Conclusion

About the author

R. Sreejith Varma earned his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2018, and also holds an MPhil in Comparative Literature and an MA in English from the University of Hyderabad. He currently works as an assistant professor in the Department of English, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore.

Summary

Reading Contemporary Environmental Justice investigates eleven contemporary environmental justice narratives from Kerala, the southwestern state in India.

Product details

• Authors: R. Sreejith Varma
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032293714
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3229371-4
• No. of pages: 156
• Series: Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Malayalam, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic, India, Kerala, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Literary studies: general, Asian History, Environmentalist thought and ideology, HISTORY / Asia / South / India