Webinar Climate Change Fiction: The South Asia Experience

In this interaction between authors, scholars and activists, we hope to critically explore the reasons for South Asia being foregrounded as a zone for climate catastrophe in recent Western cli-fi (Kim Stanley Robinson, Ministry of the Future, Stephen Markley, The Deluge), as well as discover more about the extent to which this sub-genre has found roots in this region. Amitav Ghosh has led the way in writing novels with this theme (The Hungry Tide, Gun Island), besides critiquing the failure of literary fiction to engage with this set of questions.

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Webinar date	2024/01/17
Topics	Climate change, Earth jurisprudence, Environmental justice
Participants	Vandana Singh, Anil Menon, Bodhisattva Chattopadhyaya, Ashish Kothari, Tarun K. Saint