Terra Aqua
The Amphibious Lifeworlds of Coastal and Maritime South Asia
- 102 pages
- English
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Terra Aqua
The Amphibious Lifeworlds of Coastal and Maritime South Asia
About this book
This book is an anthology of key essays that foregrounds coasts, islands, and shorelines as central to the scholarship on the oceanic environment and climate across South Asia.
The volume is a collaborative effort amongst historians, anthropologists, and environmentalists to further understand the lifeworlds of the South Asian littoral that are neither fully aquatic or terrestrial, and inescapably both. Terra Aqua invokes a 'third surface' located in the interstice of land and water—deltas, estuaries, tidelands, beaches, swamps, sandbanks, and mudflats—and engages in a radical reconceptualization of coastal and shoreline terrains. The book explores uniquely endangered habitats and emergent templates of survival against rising seas and climatic disturbances with particular focus on the Bengal and Malabar coastlines.
A critical, transdisciplinary contribution to the study of climate change in South Asia, Terra Aqua examines salinity and submergence, coastal erosion, subterranean degradation, and the depletion of littoral lifeways impacting marine communities and biospheres. It will be of particular interest to scholars of environment studies, ecology and climate change in the Global South, hydrology, geography, ocean and island studies, environmental justice, colonialism, and imperial and maritime history.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Kerala Coast and the Environmental Ethics of Precarity
- 2 A Monsoon Miracle: Naming and Knowing the Mudbanks of Malabar1
- 3 “Source to Mouth”: Engineers, Rivers, Coasts and the Bengal Delta (1750–1918)
- 4 Living Paradox in Riverine Bangladesh: Whiteheadian Perspectives on Ganga Devi and Khwaja Khijir
- 5 Earth, Water, Salt: Amphibious Pasts of the Lower Gangetic Delta1
- Index