The Bangladesh Environmental Humanities Reader: Environmental Justice, Development Victimhood, and Resistance - Hardcover

by Rubiat Afrose (Contribution by), Taslima Akhter (Contribution by), Fakrul Alam (Contribution by)

This volume analyses Bangladesh's human-nature/environment relationships in terms of development victimhood, environmental injustices, and resistance of the marginalized. It demonstrates how the popular GDP-based economic growth model helps governments undertake "development" projects, threatening the environment and livelihood of the poor while benefiting the affluent. It represents the extant environmentalism in the literary works in Bangla, and tales of pollution, depletion; and human-nature/environment symbiosis that shows ways to resist victimhood. Against current environmental challenges and other environmental issues, this volume presents the epitome of how politics, biodiversity, and technology meet in many cross-cutting pathways.

Author Biography

Samina Luthfa is associate professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Dhaka.
Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan is professor in the Department of International Relations, University of Dhaka.
Munasir Kamal is assistant professor in the Department of English, University of Dhaka.