| Pub. Date | : Sep, 2022 |
|---|---|
| Product Name | : The IUP Journal of English Studies |
| Product Type | : Article |
| Product Code | : IJES040922 |
| Author Name | : Risha Baruah |
| Availability | : YES |
| Subject/Domain | : Arts & Humanities |
| Download Format | : PDF Format |
| No. of Pages | : 14 |
With the 'greening' of postcolonial studies in the 1990s, theoretical
and literary efforts of the Global South have aimed to understand the
politics of biopower contestation as managed by imperialism. Towards
this end, the concept of 'environmentalism of the poor' emerged,
which gained global applicability for understanding the geopolitical
ecology. As an approach, it merged social, political, ethical and
ecological concerns of the Global South as it dealt with issues like
ecological imperialism, resource colonialism, global capitalism, high
modernism, indigenous territorial rights, resistance, forced migration,
etc. Acknowledging these ideas as pressing concerns in the
Anthropocenean period, Arundhati Roy, in her work Walking with
the Comrades (2011), has elaborately addressed them with the motive
to investigate the critical understanding of cultural and environmental
imperialism in the contemporary neocolonial and postnatural period.
Towards this end, the paper attempts to not only expose the power
structures and asymmetric resource flows in the neocolonial period
but also locate dispossessed and marginalized presences, interactions
and interpretations in the human-nature discourses that have
environmentalism racism as its hallmark. In addition to this, an attempt
is also made to situate indigenous experiences and narratives into
mainstream critical approaches with the intention to initiate the process
of reterritorialization and reinhabitation of the natives through pluralist
dialogism of the Global South.