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This book takes a unique approach to the ethnographic and analytical explorations of ecologies in the making. The core theme of the work will be the emerging anthropocene contexts that simultaneously bring unprecedented human interactions with the non-human as well as the emergence of hybrid ecologies. There will be dependence on existing literature, own ethnographic work that has already went into this, the closer introspection of immediate geographies as well as the pertinent debates. There has been a reconfiguration of meaning and nature of spaces in the context of social relations produced by neo-liberal globalization. States as they have been are transforming and are influenced by policies made beyond borders. This work is marked out by careful enquiry on ecologies in the making with the backdrop of distinct regional developmentalist trajectories as well as specific ethnography from Kerala, South-West India.
List of contents
Introduction: Ecologies in the Making: A Methodological Journey.- Chapter 1 Of Sovereign Designs.- Chapter 2 Voices from the Wetlands and Paddy Fields.- Chapter 3 Prolegomenon to the Spectacles in the Making.- Chapter 4 Invasives and Invadability in Perspective.- Chapter 5 Riparian Ecologies from the Ghats to the Plains.- Chapter 6 River Stories from Periyar.- Chapter 7 The 'Wild' Amongst 'Us' or the Non-Human Other.- Concluding Chapter: Unravelling Entanglements in Ecology.
About the author
Mathew A Varghese is Assistant Professor at the School of International Relations and Politics (SIRP) at the Mahatma Gandhi University in Kerala, India. Varghese's research interests are in ecological relationships, animal-human interactions and urban processes. Previously a fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Varghese is affiliated as a researcher with Urban Enclaving Futures, Bergen and the Algorithmic Governance Research Network, Oslo. He is also the Hon. Director of the Centre for Urban Studies (CUS) at the M G University.
