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Terra Aqua: The Amphibious Lifeworlds of Coastal and Maritime South Asia
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- Sudipta Sen
- Routledge
- Hardcover
- 9781032252766
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- Social Science > Sociology - General
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
This book is an anthology of key essays that foregrounds coasts, islands, and shorelines as central to the scholarship on the oceanic environment and climate across South Asia.
The volume is a collaborative effort amongst historians, anthropologists, and environmentalists to further understand the lifeworlds of the South Asian littoral that are neither fully aquatic or terrestrial, and inescapably both. Terra Aqua invokes a 'third surface' located in the interstice of land and water--deltas, estuaries, tidelands, beaches, swamps, sandbanks, and mudflats--and engages in a radical reconceptualization of coastal and shoreline terrains. The book explores uniquely endangered habitats and emergent templates of survival against rising seas and climatic disturbances with particular focus on the Bengal and Malabar coastlines.
A critical, transdisciplinary contribution to the study of climate change in South Asia, Terra Aqua examines salinity and submergence, coastal erosion, subterranean degradation, and the depletion of littoral lifeways impacting marine communities and biospheres. It will be of particular interest to scholars of environment studies, ecology and climate change in the Global South, hydrology, geography, ocean and island studies, environmental justice, colonialism, and imperial and maritime history.
Author Bio
Sudipta Sen is professor with the department history at the University of California, Davis. His teaching focus includes Indian civilization, modern India, comparative perspectives in Middle East and South Asia, Introduction to Middle East & South Asia.
Professor Sen is a recipient of Fulbright-Nehru Academic Excellence Award 2020-2021.
Research Interests
Late Mughal and British India, British Empire; Environment and Ecology
Education
Ph.D. (Distinction), Department of History, University of Chicago, June 1994
M.A. in Social Science, Department of History, University of Chicago, December 1988
M.A., April 1988, Post-graduate Department of History, Calcutta University, Calcutta
B.A. (Honors), June 1985, Department of History, Presidency College, Calcutta
Source: University of California, Davis
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