Environmental Crisis and Human Rights

Joyjit Ghosh is Professor in the Department of English Literature, Language and Cultural Studies at Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal, India.Samit Kumar Maiti is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Seva Bharati Mahavidyalaya, Kapgari, Jhargram, West Bengal, India.Sk Tarik Ali is Assistant Professor in the West Bengal Education Service, and teaches in the PG Department of English, Hooghly Mohsin College, Chinsurah, Hooghly, West Bengal, India.

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures ForewordAmit R. BaishyaIntroductionJoyjit Ghosh, Samit Kumar Maiti and Sk Tarik AliChapter 1: Depicting Crime in Climate Change: How Mystery Fiction Interrogates Rights and Culpability in the Climate CrisisMatthew MunroChapter 2: Our Fragile Islands and Islanders: Re-engaging with Climate Change and Slow Violence in Pankaj Sekhsaria’s The Last Wave and Islands in FluxAbhra Paul and Amarjeet NayakChapter 3: Climate Justice, Human Rights, and Tribal Poets of JharkhandShreya Bhattacharji, Gunjan Kumar Jha and Hare Krishna KuiryChapter 4: Picturing Injustice: Climate Change and Human Rights in Two Contemporary Graphic NarrativesChitra V.R. and Devika PanikarChapter 5: Navigating the Mountains of the Mind: An Eco-psychological Reading of Ankush Saikia’s The Forest Beneath the MountainsChandana Rajbanshi and Panchali BhattacharyaChapter 6: “God has cursed us with oil”: Perto-colonial Extractivism, Ecocidal Violence and the “Pipeline People” in Select Oil Stories of Nnedi Okorafor and Uwem AkpanShankha Shubhra Mandal and Sk Tarik AliChapter 7: Building Big Dams for “The Greater Common Good”: Politics of Development, Environmental Degradation and DisplacementJolly DasChapter 8: Climate Change Narrative and Hydro Crisis: Representation in Bollywood Film JalShruti DasChapter 9: Violation of Rights of the Adivasis and Exploitation of Nature in Mahasweta Devi’s Pterodactyl, Puran Sahay, and Pirtha: An Intersectional AnalysisDebdas RoyChapter 10: Towards a “Transformative Utopia”: Locating Emancipation in Select Contemporary Australian Young Adult and Children’s FictionSoumyadeep ChakrabortyChapter 11: Cinematic Silence and Necropolitical Dynamics: Interrogating Coal Mining Realities in Bollywood FilmsDebabrata Modak and Santi SarkarChapter 12: A Far Cry from Sri Lanka: Reclaiming Human Rights for the Climate Refugees through Benjamin Dix and Lindsay Pollock’s Graphic Narrative VanniSomsuvra Midya and Binod MishraChapter 13: “Slow Violence” and Subaltern Resistance: A Reading of Imbolo Mbue’s World in How Beautiful We WereIndrajit MukherjeeChapter 14: Navigating the Anthropocene: Climate Resilience and the Plight of Eco-refugees in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun IslandAmar ChakraborttyChapter 15: From Pandora to Jengaburu: Indigenous Rights, Resource Extraction and Subaltern Environmentalism in Avatar and The Jengaburu CurseMir Ahammad AliChapter 16: Precarity of Life in the Himalayas: Environmental Hazards and Human Rights in Nuzhat Khan’s Whistling WoodsPabitra Kumar RanaChapter 17: Eco-Critical Perspectives and Cultural Politics of Indigenous Struggles: A Comparative Study of Literary Texts Pushpa N. ParekhChapter 18: Who Pays the Price?: Conservation Pitted against Environmental Displacement in The Hungry TideSourav PalAbout the Contributors

"This important collection builds upon postcolonial and Global South ecocriticism of the past few decades in vividly reinforcing the idea that environmental crisis and human rights are inextricably bound together. In other words, whenever we talk about environmental crises, we must also keep human rights (and human suffering) in mind. The literary and cultural texts examined here beautifully and painfully illustrate the human impacts of climate change and other contemporary forms of environmental catastrophe."