Environmental Studies from India

Sudha Vasan is a Professor at the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. Following a PhD from Yale University, she held research and teaching positions at Yale University, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Institute of Economic Growth, and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, before joining the University of Delhi in 2006. She was a Ruth Glass Fellow at the London School of Economics and a visiting fellow at the Australian National University. She teaches and writes on political ecology, with a focus on the entanglement of social institutions, stratification, and inequality with ecology and environmentalism. Professor Vasan's work has been published in Environmental Research Letters, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Developing Societies, Economic and Political Weekly, Sociological Bulletin, Conservation and Society, and Journal of Human Ecology.

• IntroductionSudha Vasan: Environmental Studies in the Time of Planetary CrisisPart I. Reframing Space, Rethinking the Region1: Arupjyoti Saikia: Monsoon Geographies, Assam, and Making of an Eco-Region2: Mukul Sharma: Castescapes, Dalit Labour, and Environmental Inequality3: Purendra Prasad: Region as a Contested Socio-ecological Space: India's East Coast in the Capitalocene?Part II. Commons and Commodification4: Deepak K. Mishra: The Complexities of Commodification: State, Market, and Community Institutions in Arunachal Pradesh5: Kh Neil Young: Property in Fluid Nature: Legal Regimes and Chapories on the Brahmaputra in Majuli Island, Assam6: Heather Plumridge Bedi: Solar Futures and Persistent Injustices in KeralaPart III. Environmental Subjectivities and Socio-Natures7: Budhaditya Das: Territorialization and Interlocking Environmentalities: Political Ecology of Forest Governance in Satpura Hills, Madhya Pradesh, 1990-20158: Manisha Rao: Forest Gardens of Malnad: Agrarian Ecology and the Afterlives of Appiko Chaluvali9: Prama Mukhopadhyay: Weaving the Threads of Entanglement: From the Lens of the Fishers in the Indian Sundarban Deltas10: Asmita Kabra: Fortress Conservation of Charismatic Carnivores in a Political Forest of Central IndiaPart IV. Metabolic Social Ecologies and Infrastructural Labour11: Daniel Münster,Ursula M. Frank, and T.R. Suma: Frontiers, Encounters, Metabolism: A Material-semiotic Approach to Fields and Forests in the Western Ghats12: Tanya Matthan: The Seed and the Well: Navigating Agrarian Risk in the Anthropocene13: Harsha Anantharaman and Vinay Gidwani: Metabolic Lives: Labour-grabbing under Formal Waste Management RegimesPart V. The Anthropocene as Everyday Experience14: Mayank Kumar: Markers of Anthropocene? Revisiting Early-modern South Asia15: Nandan Nawn: Public Policy in Response to Planetary Crises: Scale Matters in Augmenting Biodiversity and Improving Resilience of Financial Ecosystems16: Savyasaachi: Water and Climate Change: Lived Experience of Untimely Weather, Dehydrated Earth, and Weathered Labour