Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas: Symbiotic Indigeneity, Commoning, Sustainability

ISBN-13: 9780367699796 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 290 str.

Dan Smyer Yü; Erik de Maaker

Opis

This book showcases how the eco-geological creativity of the earth is integrally woven into the landforms, cultures, and cosmovisions of modern Himalayan communities, featuring case studies from Bhutan, Assam, Sikkim, Tibet, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sino-Indian borderlands.

Spis treści

Situating Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas: An Introduction, Dan Smyer Yü  Part I Kindred of the Earth, Deities, Humans and Animals  1. Relatedness, Trans-species Knots, and Yak Personhood in the Bhutan Highlands, Jelle J.P. Wouters  2. Lepcha Water View and Climate Change in Sikkim Himalaya, Charisma K. Lepcha  3. Eco-spiritual and Economic Perceptions in Bhutan’s Haa District, Thinley Dema  Part II Aqueous Earth  4. Narratives from A Fluvial World: Poetics of Charland Dwelling in a Neocolonial Assam, Bhagarbi Das  5. Painting the Genesis of the Lepcha: A World Emerging from Water Spirits, Rongnyoo Lepcha and Mongfing Lepcha  6. Muddying the Waters: The Invention and Enclosure of Tibet’s Wetlands, Ruth Gamble  Part III Evolving Cosmovisions, Climate Change and Community Resilience  7. Aloof but not Abandoned: Relationality and the Exploitation of the Environment in the Garo Hills of India, Erik de Maaker  8. Cordyceps, Climate Change and Cosmological Imbalance in the Bhutan highlands, Kinley Choki  9. Local Knowledge of Floods and Coping Strategies in Downstream Mahakali River, Nepal, Rashila Deshar, Dibas Shrestha, Sarina Maharjan and Madan Koirala  Part IV Transboundary Environmentality and Indigenous Commoning  10. Indigenous Irrigation System Linking People, Place and the Planet: the Practice of jamfwi on the India-Bhutan Borderlands, Anwesha Dutta and Shailendra Yashwant  11. Rajaki: An Indigenous Approach to Commoning in Hunza, Pakistan, Zainab Khalid  12. Transboundary Environments, Militarization and Minoritization: Reimagining International Relations in the Himalaya from Ladakh, India, Alexander Davis  13. Symbiotic Indigeneity and Commoning in the Anthropogenic Himalayas, Dan Smyer Yü  Conclusion: Indigenous Heritages and Sacred Earth, John Grim