Vol. 11 No. 21 (2023): NALANS Special Issue: Capitalism, Anthropocene, and literature of the Global South

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This issue aims at developing an extensive understanding of counter-hegemonic implementations where South-wide understandings are articulated through literary works about the Global South, considering the decolonial possibilities as a methodology that considers the epistemic variety in environmental studies. In doing so, this issue incorporates literary investigation into environmental issues with the objective of contributing to more equitable and sustainable development through a greater awareness of nature-society correlations. The issue aims to reevaluate the paradigms of ecological modernization, ecological democracy, political ecology, and decolonial and postcolonial approaches to ecological issues, considering it an epistemological project that calls for the fostering of a distinct approach in the assessment of nature-society relations.

Issue Editors: Mustafa Zeki Çıraklı & Goutam Karmakar

Published: 2023-05-15

Introduction

Articles

  • Precarious Denizens: The Dogs of War and Conflict

    Pramod K Nayar (Author)
    1-8
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.59045/nalans.2023.11

  • The Capitalocene and Slow Violence in Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude

    Işıl Şahin Gülter (Author)
    9-23
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.59045/nalans.2023.12

  • Epistemic (dis)belief and (dis)obedience: Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness and the decolonial ecological turn

    Goutam Karmakar, Rajendra Chetty (Author)
    24-39
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.59045/nalans.2023.13

  • Solastalgia and Poetic Resilience in the Environmental Imagination of Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner

    Debajyoti Biswas , John Charles Ryan (Author)
    40-56
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.59045/nalans.2023.14

  • ‘To Learn from Nature, not to Exploit Her’: Discerning Postcolonial Green Speculations in Vandana Singh’s Indra’s Web and Widdam

    Sakshi Semwal, Smita Jha (Author)
    57-69
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.59045/nalans.2023.15

  • Screening Eco-trauma in the Context of Post-socialism: “The Great Flood” and Local Identity Crisis in Chinese and Vietnamese Independent Films (the Cases of Taking Father Home and 2030)

    Hoang Cam Giang (Author)
    70-84
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.59045/nalans.2023.16

  • Destabilizing ‘Development’: A Critique of Capitalocene in Sarah Joseph’s Gift in Green

    Swapnit Pradhan, Nagendra Kumar (Author)
    85-99
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.59045/nalans.2023.17

  • Development vis-à-vis Degrowth: Stories of Resistance, Struggle, and Survival from the Postcolonial Western Ghats

    Sunu Rose Joseph, Shashikantha Koudur (Author)
    100-117
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.59045/nalans.2023.18

  • Witnessing Tribal Life and the Environment: An Ecological Re-reading of the Select Narratives of Mahasweta Devi

    Payel Pal (Author)
    118-129
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.59045/nalans.2023.19

  • A Language Spoken with Words: Decolonization, Knowledge Production and Environmental Injustice in the Work of Abdulrazak Gurnah

    Ferreira Maria João (Author)
    130-143
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.59045/nalans.2023.20

  • The Human that Therefore I am: Transculturation of an Ecological Debate in Green Humour for a Greying Planet

    Shrabanee Khatai, Seema Kumari Ladsaria (Author)
    144-163
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.59045/nalans.2023.21

  • The Anthropocene as Impasse: Optimism, cynicism, and the desire for justice in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People

    Akshata Sharad Pai (Author)
    164-175
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.59045/nalans.2023.22