Desertscapes in the Global South and Beyond

Sushila Shekhawat (Ph.D. from Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani; Areas of Expertise: Film and Media Studies) is Associate Professor at the department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Pilani Campus. She has 23 journal essays, 13 book chapters and one edited volume to her credit.Rayson K. Alex (Ph.D. from Madras Christian College, University of Madras; Areas of Expertise: Ecocriticism) is Associate Professor at the department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus. He has 11 journal essays, 22 book chapters and 6 edited books to his credit. He is the founder and co-director of tiNai Ecofilm Festival. Swarnalatha Rangarajan (Ph.D. from University of Madras; Areas of Expertise: Ecocriticism and American Literature) is Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras. She has published 24 journal essays, 11 book chapters and 7 edited books, a novel and a monograph.

• IntroductionSushila Shekhawat, Rayson K.Alex and Swarnalatha RangarajanChapter 1Topologies of Nihilism: Anthropocene Imaginaries and the Figure of the DesertAidan Tynan Chapter 2Inheriting Isotopes: The Androcene and the End of Nature in the Great Victoria Desert A-Bomb Test SitesCA. CranstonChapter 3Old Green Deserts and New Brown Pools: Post-colonization, Neo-colonization, and DecolonizationIris RalphChapter 4Slow Violence and the Desert Ecology: Re-Reading Terra Nullius in Hergé’s Arab WorldNilanjana Chatterjee, Anindita Chatterjee, and Boijayanto MukherjeeChapter 5Environmental and Cultural Disequilibriums in Southeast Asian Literature Chitra SankaranChapter 6This Land Shouldn’t Be a Desert: The Collapse of Western Civilization in 18th Century "California"Luis Felipe Gómez LomelíChapter 7Graciliano Ramos and Bessie Head: Political and Affective Dimensions of Two Different DesertsIzabel F. O. BrandãoChapter 8Songs of Longing: Love Narratives and the Geographical Imaginaries of the Thar DesertTanuja KothiyalChapter 9Palai (Arid and Semi-Arid) Landscapes in Early Tamil Literatureand History of South IndiaV. SelvakumarChapter 10Under Another Sky: A Triptych in the Thar DesertVidya SarveswaranChapter 11A Different Story in the Anthropocene: "Ecological Migrants" Greening Deserts in ChinaZhou XiaojingChapter 12Tibet: A New Shambala for Posthumanist ImaginationGang YueChapter 13Overcoming the Nature/Culture Divide: What can we learn from Aboriginal culture in the Anthropocene?Roslynn HaynesChapter 14The Sustainable Way of Life of the Bedouin GoneSharif Elmusa