Desertscapes in the Global South and Beyond

Embracing a rich diversity of voices, this volume seeks to explore the different facets of Anthropocene naturecultures in the desert biomes of the Global South and beyond.

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Sushila Shekhawat (Ph.D. from Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani; Areas of Expertise: Film and Media Studies) is Associate Professor at the department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Pilani Campus. She has 23 journal essays, 13 book chapters and one edited volume to her credit.

Rayson K. Alex (Ph.D. from Madras Christian College, University of Madras; Areas of Expertise: Ecocriticism) is Associate Professor at the department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus. He has 11 journal essays, 22 book chapters and 6 edited books to his credit. He is the founder and co-director of tiNai Ecofilm Festival.

Swarnalatha Rangarajan (Ph.D. from University of Madras; Areas of Expertise: Ecocriticism and American Literature) is Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras. She has published 24 journal essays, 11 book chapters and 7 edited books, a novel and a monograph.

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Introduction

Sushila Shekhawat, Rayson K.Alex and Swarnalatha Rangarajan

Chapter 1

Topologies of Nihilism: Anthropocene Imaginaries and the Figure of the Desert

Aidan Tynan

Chapter 2

Inheriting Isotopes: The Androcene and the End of Nature in the Great Victoria Desert A-Bomb Test Sites

CA. Cranston

Chapter 3

Old Green Deserts and New Brown Pools: Post-colonization, Neo-colonization, and Decolonization

Iris Ralph

Chapter 4

Slow Violence and the Desert Ecology: Re-Reading Terra Nullius in Hergé's Arab World

Nilanjana Chatterjee, Anindita Chatterjee, and Boijayanto Mukherjee

Chapter 5

Environmental and Cultural Disequilibriums in Southeast Asian Literature

Chitra Sankaran

Chapter 6

This Land Shouldn't Be a Desert: The Collapse of Western Civilization in 18th Century "California"

Luis Felipe Gómez Lomelí

Chapter 7

Graciliano Ramos and Bessie Head: Political and Affective Dimensions of Two Different Deserts

Izabel F. O. Brandão

Chapter 8

Songs of Longing: Love Narratives and the Geographical Imaginaries of the Thar Desert

Tanuja Kothiyal

Chapter 9

Palai (Arid and Semi-Arid) Landscapes in Early Tamil Literature

and History of South India

V. Selvakumar

Chapter 10

Under Another Sky: A Triptych in the Thar Desert

Vidya Sarveswaran

Chapter 11

A Different Story in the Anthropocene: "Ecological Migrants" Greening Deserts in China

Zhou Xiaojing

Chapter 12

Tibet: A New Shambala for Posthumanist Imagination

Gang Yue

Chapter 13

Overcoming the Nature/Culture Divide: What can we learn from Aboriginal culture in the Anthropocene?

Roslynn Haynes

Chapter 14

The Sustainable Way of Life of the Bedouin Gone

Sharif Elmusa