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Climate Change and Human Rights

Literary and Cultural Responses

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Climate Change and Human Rights

Literary and Cultural Responses

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This anthology of scholarly ecocritical essays offers varied and global perspectives on the representations of violations of human rights, mainly caused by anthropogenic climate change, in literature and various forms of visual media. Focusing on such forms as poem, mystery fiction, graphic narrative, cli-fi, science fiction, petrofiction, dystopian fiction, film, online documentaries, You Tube videos, animated short, etc., the volume makes a critical inquiry into the human rights dimension of climate change and strongly argues that the eco-imaginaries in literature and visual media has enormous importance in disseminating the information about climate change and preparing humanity for a society based on the principles of equality. Insightful, compelling, and authoritative, the essays in this volume critically focus on the issues of ecological imperialism, colonization, deforestation, mining, construction of dams, petrochemical contamination, environmental displacement, and how these diverse forms of ecological crisis violate multiple aspects of human rights as they disproportionately affect the social minorities, indigenous and nomadic communities, women, and other disadvantaged communities, and bring to the fore the issues of food security, public health, gender disparity, family disruption, and social violence.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Foreword
Amit R. Baishya

Introduction
Joyjit Ghosh, Samit Kumar Maiti and Sk Tarik Ali

Chapter 1: Depicting Crime in Climate Change: How Mystery Fiction Interrogates Rights and Culpability in the Climate Crisis
Matthew Munro

Chapter 2: Our Fragile Islands and Islanders: Re-engaging with Climate Change and Slow Violence in Pankaj Sekhsaria's The Last Wave and Islands in Flux
Abhra Paul and Amarjeet Nayak

Chapter 3: Climate Justice, Human Rights, and Tribal Poets of Jharkhand
Shreya Bhattacharji, Gunjan Kumar Jha and Hare Krishna Kuiry

Chapter 4: Picturing Injustice: Climate Change and Human Rights in Two Contemporary Graphic Narratives
Chitra V.R. and Devika Panikar

Chapter 5: Navigating the Mountains of the Mind: An Eco-psychological Reading of Ankush Saikia's The Forest Beneath the Mountains
Chandana Rajbanshi and Panchali Bhattacharya

Chapter 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 Akpan
Shankha Shubhra Mandal and Sk Tarik Ali

Chapter 7: Building Big Dams for “The Greater Common Good”: Politics of Development, Environmental Degradation and Displacement
Jolly Das

Chapter 8: Climate Change Narrative and Hydro Crisis: Representation in Bollywood Film Jal
Shruti Das

Chapter 9: Apocalypse Forever: Worldview, “Slow” Decay, and Structural Upheaval
Michael Dunn and Benjamin Weyland

Chapter 10: Violation of Rights of the Adivasis and Exploitation of Nature in Mahasweta Devi's Pterodactyl, Puran Sahay, and Pirtha: An Intersectional Analysis
Debdas Roy

Chapter 11: Towards a “Transformative Utopia”: Locating Emancipation in Select Contemporary Australian Young Adult and Children's Fiction
Soumyadeep Chakraborty

Chapter 12: Cinematic Silence and Necropolitical Dynamics: Interrogating Coal Mining Realities in Bollywood Films
Debabrata Modak and Santi Sarkar

Chapter 13: A Far Cry from Sri Lanka: Reclaiming Human Rights for the Climate Refugees through Benjamin Dix and Lindsay Pollock's Graphic Narrative Vanni
Somsuvra Midya and Binod Mishra

Chapter 14: “Slow Violence” and Subaltern Resistance: A Reading of Imbolo Mbue's World in How Beautiful We Were
Indrajit Mukherjee

Chapter 15: Navigating the Anthropocene: Climate Resilience and the Plight of Eco-refugees in Amitav Ghosh's Gun Island
Amar Chakrabortty

Chapter 16: From Pandora to Jengaburu: Indigenous Rights, Resource Extraction and Subaltern Environmentalism in Avatar and The Jengaburu Curse
Mir Ahammad Ali

Chapter 17: Precarity of Life in the Himalayas: Environmental Hazards and Human Rights in Nuzhat Khan's Whistling Woods
Pabitra Kumar Rana

Chapter 18: Eco-Critical Perspectives and Cultural Politics of Indigenous Struggles: A Comparative Study of Literary Texts
Pushpa N. Parekh

Chapter 19: Who Pays the Price?: Conservation Pitted against Environmental Displacement in The Hungry Tide
Sourav Pal

About the Contributors

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 18 Dec 2025
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 1
ISBN 9781978768277
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Series Environment and Society
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Joyjit Ghosh

Joyjit Ghosh is Professor in the Department of Eng…

Anthology Editor

Samit Kumar Maiti

Samit Kumar Maiti is Assistant Professor in the De…

Anthology Editor

Sk Tarik Ali

Sk Tarik Ali is Assistant Professor in English in…

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