Environment: from a humanities perspective: introductory thoughts

Bhattacharya, S. and Chattopadhyay, A. (2019) Environment: from a humanities perspective: introductory thoughts. Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 5(2), pp. 1-4.

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Abstract

In the last decades, there has begun a close and productive dialogue between humanities studies and environment and disaster studies. This has arisen from the general understanding in academic and policy-making circles that the problem of environment crisis or of climate change cannot be meaningfully engaged with through the lens of one single discipline or for that matter through scientific studies alone. Environment is constituted of material and non-material interactions between the humans and the non-humans. It is a very broad and complex domain, and a study addressed towards sustainable living and caring for the environment will need to take into account factors responsible for the current global environmental crisis and the way human communities and non-human living beings in a local set up have responded to environmentally directed but (majorly) human-oriented policies and values. As development ideology continues to remain the cornerstone for ‘progress’, questions of sustainability and conservation have become vital to national, state, and non-state thinktanks.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Bhattacharya, Dr Sourit
Authors: Bhattacharya, S., and Chattopadhyay, A.
College/School:College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies > English Literature
Journal Name:Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry
Publisher:Sanglap
ISSN:2349-8064
ISSN (Online):2349-8064
Published Online:31 March 2019
Copyright Holders:Copyright © 2019 The Authors
First Published:First published in Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry 5(2): 1-4
Publisher Policy:Reproduced under a Creative Commons License

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