Ecological Entanglements Affect Embodiment (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: New. Contents: Foreword by Sundar Sarukkai. Introduction/Ambika Aiyadurai, Arka Chattopadhyay & Nishaant Choksi. ECOLOGIES OF CARE. 1.Ethos, Pathos, Logos: Affective and Emotive Ethnographies of HumanMacaque Lifeworlds/Ishika Ramakrishna, Ajith Kumar, Maan Barua & Anindya Sinha 2.How to Become with a Bird: Lessons from Salim Ali's Common Birds/Krishnanunni Hari 3.Feeling the Moss: Exploring Ecological Sensitivity through 'Enchanted' Encounters/Deborah Dutta 4.Reading the Elephant: Towards Affectual Conceptualisations of the Wild Asian Elephant/Sayan Banerjee & Anindya Sinha 5.Blindness and Canine Heroicisation: Interdependence in Kuusisto's Have Dog, Will Travel/Krishna Kumar S. 6.Human and Animal: 'Destitution' and 'Divinisation' in the Discourse and Practice of Caste/Ankit Kawade AFFECTIVE EXPRESSIONS. 7.Expressiveness and Affect: Everyday Poetics in Natural Landscapes/Nathan Badenoch & Toshiki Osada 8.Songs of Script: Embodied Affect and Indigenous Language Literacy in Eastern India/Nishaant Choksi 9.Winding Spools and Speaking Stones: How to Play Beckett's Tape Recorder and Listen to Handke's Stone Woman in Krapp's Last Tape and Till Day You Do Part, or A Question of Light?/Asijit Dutta 10.Embodying the Birangona: Negotiating History and Memory of the Bangladesh Liberation War, 1971/ Antara Ghatak EMBODIED SPACES 11.Becoming Thylacine: Embodiment, Ecology and Materialism in Julia Leigh's The Hunter/Mark Byron 12.Walking on a Tightrope: Circus and Its Double in Colonial Bengal/Prodosh Bhattacharya 13.Imperial Malady: Empire and Affect in Colonial Narratives/Anuparna Mukherje 14.Between Space and the Body: The Affective Economy of Caste/Antaripa Bharali 15.A Sense of Waste: Environment as Alienated 'Setting' and Bengali Experimental Fiction/Samrat Sengupta Glossary Contributors Index Ecological Entanglements: Affect, Embodiment and Ethics of Care is a contributory volume that calls for new ways to apprehend the ecological crisis by formulating a framework that integrates social, material, and cultural dimensions of ecology. The essays in the volume argue that ecology is thoroughly entangled with affective, communicative and embodied practices that provide a sense of how one can not only understand, but also care for the other.…