Living in Critical Zones

Jennifer Eadie is Research Fellow in the Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame, Broome, Australia.Stephen Muecke is Senior Research Fellow at the Nulungu Research Institute, Notre Dame University, Broome, Australia.

• Introduction Part 1: Working in the Critical Zone 1. Living in the Critical Zone: The Environmental Humanities 2. Terranology: Integrating Science and Social Sciences in the Critical Zone 3. Coming Down to Earth: Towards Bio-cultural Care 4. The Dividing Khandesh: an Ecocritical Study of Khandeshi Bhil and Mavchi Communities in Western and Central Parts of India Part 2: Reckoning with Human and Nonhuman Belonging 5. Extraction, Extinction, Emergence: The Plantation as Critical Zone 6. Encountering the Bengal Tiger in the climate ‘hotspot’ of the Sundarbans 7. Where Defending Mother Earth and the Quest for a Just World are the Same and One: Berta Cáceres 8. Post-truth, Human-machine and Alienation 9. Of the Re-enchantment of Our Lives: A Working Paper Part 3: The Novel as a Story-Universe 10. Fig Trees and Humans: The Destruction of the Ecosystem of the Arboreal World and the Ecological Crisis in Cyprus in Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees 11. Ecohumanism & Apocalyptic Reading of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy 12. Climate and Culture Crisis: A Study of Amitav Ghosh’s Selected Works through Ecocriticism 13. Environment, Capitalist Development and Class Struggle in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness 14. An ecocritical Reading of Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behaviour and Olga Tokarkzuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of Dead 15. An Ecofeminist Reading of Endangered Lives