Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas: Symbiotic indigeneity, commoning, sustainability, edited by Dan Smyer Yü and Erik de Maaker
Year: 2022
Type: book-review
Abstract: What does the Anthropocene mean for the Himalayas?Published as part of the Routledge Series on environmental humanities, Environmental humanities in the new Himalayas: symbiotic indigeneity, commoning, sustainability sheds light on this question by showing both the vulnerability and the resilience of the region and its people during this critical era.With this book, the editors Dan Smyer Yü and Erik de Maaker have assembled a collection of papers written by scholars from 12 different countries and from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including anthropology, history, earth science, environmental studies and others.The geographical coverage is also impressive.The editors approach their geographical object of study, the 'Tibet-Himalayan water commons' from the original perspective of 'a terrestrial ocean as a water-land body', which has undergone an artificial partition (p9) and is now 'cartographically sliced by the human nations of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China (Tibet), India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan' (p249).The discussion is framed within the environmental humanities and is organised into four parts: 'Kindred of the earth, deities, humans and animals', 'Aqueous earth', 'Evolving cosmovisions, climate Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas: Symbiotic indigeneity, commoni...
DOI: 10.4000/ebhr.478
Author: Karine Gagné
Institution: University of Guelph
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4286506479