{"product_id":"the-bangladesh-environmental-humanities-reader-9781498599139","title":"The Bangladesh Environmental Humanities Reader","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe environmental humanitiesfounded on the indivisible human-environment nexusfocus on socioeconomic inequalities, injustices, and various cultural differences to explain environmental degradation and crises and to propose solutions. The Bangladesh Environmental Humanities Reader: Environmental Justice, Developmental Victimhood, and Resistance presents unique analyses of Bangladesh's environment-development relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book looks at developmental victimhood, environmental injustices, and resistance of the marginalized in Bangladesh. It reflects how the popular GDP-based economic development model motivates governments of Bangladesh to undertake infrastructural and development projects, the growth of which threatens environment and livelihood of the poorer sections while benefiting the affluent profiteers. The book also critically engages with environmentalism represented through the literary works in Bangla through tales of pollution, depletion, and human-nature symbios\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Tables and Figures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword by Scott Slovic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamina Luthfa, Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan, and Munasir Kamal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Industrialization, Urbanization, and Space\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Ia: Environment and New Politics of Space\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Growth and Disaster: A Tale of Environmental Disaster in the Time of High Growth in Bangladesh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnu Muhammad\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Co-management Approach for Nature\/Forest Conservation, Corporate Interests, and the Nishorgo Support Project in Bangladesh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMohammad Tanzimuddin Khan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Resisting a Coal Mine in Bangladesh and Immigrants in the United Kingdom: The New Agent\/Actors in Transnational Environmental Politics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamina Luthfa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Pursuing Justice for All: Eviction and Environmental Injustice in Dhaka\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLutfun Nahar Lata\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Rohingya Influx: Impacts on Environment and Local Host Communities in Bangladesh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMrittika Kamal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Ib: Hazardous Work Environment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Iron Eaters: A Story of Scrapped Men\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFahmidul Haq\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Work Environment and Its Effect on Job Satisfaction in the Ready-Made Garments Industry in Bangladesh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZahid ul Arefin Choudhury\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Death of a Thousand Dreams: A Photo Essay on the Rana Plaza Collapse and the Aftermath\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaslima Akhter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Water, Environment, and Victimhood\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Chokoria Sundarbans: A Forest without Trees\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilip Gain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Critically Understanding Samta: A Tale of an Arsenic Affected Village\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFatema-Tuj-Juhra and Rubiat Afrose Raka\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Kaptai Dam Bor-Porong: The Human Cost of Dam and Development—An Account of Forced Migration\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMonzima Haque\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Historicizing Kaptai Dam, Collective Trauma, and Political Awakening in the Chittagong Hill Tracts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMunasir Kamal and Mesbah Kamal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: Ecocriticism and Creative Space for Environmental Justice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13: Ecocentrism and Bauls: Lalon and Radharaman’s Meditative Activism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGolam Rabbani\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14: Rabindranath Tagore and Environmental Justice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFakrul Alam\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15: Marginalization of Minorities and the Environment: Bibhutibhushan Bandapadhyay’s Pather Panchali and Aryanak\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShehreen Ataur Khan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 16: Reclaiming Voice: In Search of Space and Agency in Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay’s Hansuli Banker Upakatha\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSabrina Binte Masud\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 17: Riverine Communities: A Study of Adwaita Mallabarman’s Titas Ekti Nadir Naam and Manik Bandopadhyay’s Padma Nadir Majhi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQazi Arka Rahman and Faria Alam\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 18: Unequal Justice: Ethnicity and Class in Mahasweta Devi’s Aranyer Adhikar and Selim Al Deen’s Bonopangshul\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoumya Sarker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart IV: Biodiversity, Ecosystem, and Politics of Sustainability\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 19: Plant Biodiversity Management for Nutritional Food Security in Bangladesh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLutfur Rahman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 20: The UN Climate Change Conferences: An Investigative Study of the Shortcomings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMd. Rezwanul Haque Masud\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040880329047,"sku":"9781498599139","price":80.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498599139.jpg?v=1750948159","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-bangladesh-environmental-humanities-reader-9781498599139","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}