Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667211063825
Gideon Thomas Mathson
Aase J. Kvanneid. 2021. Perceptions of Climate Change from North India: An Ethnographic Account. Oxford: Routledge. 182 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, index. £29.59 (eBook)
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667211065081
D. Chakrabarty
By drawing on the phenomena of anthropogenic climate change and the pandemic as two examples of the geologists’ idea of the Anthropocene, this article seeks to explain how the Anthropocene leads to a plurality of overlapping but conflicting temporalities for humans. This problem of time makes it difficult to imagine any globally concerted effort to deal with the Anthropocene or climate change as such.
{"title":"The chronopolitics of the Anthropocene: The pandemic and our sense of time","authors":"D. Chakrabarty","doi":"10.1177/00699667211065081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00699667211065081","url":null,"abstract":"By drawing on the phenomena of anthropogenic climate change and the pandemic as two examples of the geologists’ idea of the Anthropocene, this article seeks to explain how the Anthropocene leads to a plurality of overlapping but conflicting temporalities for humans. This problem of time makes it difficult to imagine any globally concerted effort to deal with the Anthropocene or climate change as such.","PeriodicalId":45175,"journal":{"name":"Contributions To Indian Sociology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41791089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667221078396
C. Anusha
Lesley Green (with a foreword by Isabelle Stengers). 2020. Rock | Water | Life: Ecology and Humanities for a Decolonial South Africa. Durham and London: Duke University Press. xxv + 296 pp. Maps, notes, figures, illustrations, bibliography, index. $27.95 (eBook).
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667211068443
A. Sharma
John Stratton Hawley. 2020. Krishna’s Playground: Vrindavan in the 21st Century. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. xx + 361 pp. Maps, figures, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. ₹750.75 (eBook)
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667211073723
Rita Brara
‘[T]here is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations.’ (Michel Foucault 1977: 27)
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667211066886
Upasna Sharma
Sunita Narain, Shazneen Cyrus Gazdar, Avantika Goswami, and Tarun Gopalakrishnan (edited by Souparno Banerjee). 2021. Climate Change: Science and Politics. New Delhi: Centre for Science and Environment. x + 198 pp. Figures, illustrations, maps, notes, references, tables. ₹750 (paperback)
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667211059715
Olivia Calleja
This article examines Delhi’s neoliberal regime of solid waste management and the evolving and hybrid trajectory of appropriation that it gives rise to. Working with a commons/enclosure framework, I analyse how the privatisation of waste management unfolds amidst complex waste work community relations and dense labour politics to create contingent and unanticipated scenarios that modify the enclosure of waste. Specifically, I observe that circuits of exchange have developed in the shadow of privatised waste infrastructure and allow materials of value to escape into the informal recycling economy, despite modernisation blueprints planning for their capture by capitalist agents. This messy configuration urges us to nuance our comprehension of accumulation by dispossession in the context of Indian cities. In this article, I argue that variegated practices of commoning and enclosing underlie these everyday arrangements and the compromises on which they rest. This approach allows us to consider how (neo-) customary rights over the resources of waste and labour networks reconfigure under neoliberal regimes to condition the enclosing of waste commons. Finally, I suggest that situated histories and caste politics emerge as central features to understand the capitalist transformation of waste systems.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667211059723
Aase J. Kvanneid
The lower Shivalik Hills of North India is a region that is experiencing rapid socio-environmental challenges from interrelated changes in climate, market and society. While decades of governmental development efforts in the rural region have brought increased access to education, sanitation and improved infrastructure in the lower Shivalik Hills, the region is still characterised by poverty, illiteracy, a severely eschewed sex ratio and increased male out-migration to the larger cities. The article draws on empirical cases intended to provide an insight into gendered consequences of the contemporary rural coping strategies. These cases are drawn from anthropological fieldwork conducted in 2013.1 Although the joint households of the villages in the rural Shivalik Hills might seem to be resilient towards climate and market changes as men migrate for work, an overt focus on migration as a practice overlooks gender equality and social mobility, especially for young women, who are left behind to shoulder an extra burden.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667211063837
Vasundhara Bhojvaid
Hannah Knox. 2020. Thinking Like a Climate: Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change. Durham: Duke University Press. xv + 314 pp. Notes, figures, references, index. $27.95 (eBook)
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667211057880
Awadhendra Sharan
Climate change and the pandemic, each in its own way, has powerfully drawn our attention to the imbrication of human lives with non-humans. In this article, I attempt to address these linkages through a focus on energy use and environment in Indian cities, especially in domestic settings. The introduction section of the article presents its background. The second section discusses weather and the colonial science of climatology in thinking about ventilation and thermal comfort, and ends with an account of air conditioning in Indian cities. The third section offers a history of efforts at mitigating indoor air pollution through a transition in energy use from biomass to the use of gas and electricity. In conclusion, I draw attention to the translation that is involved in thinking about energy, urbanism and climate change historically and in the contemporary period.
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