Living with the weather : climate change, ecology and displacement in South Asia / edited by Piya Srinivasan

Acknowledgements -- Epigraph -- Introduction / Piya Srinivasan -- Part I Uncertain Geographies : 1 Mapping Displacement in India: The Cases of Development and Climate Disasters / Shatabdi Das -- 2 Locating the Majidbhita Char of Assam: In the Shadow of Ecological Marginality, Migration and Systemic Exclusion / Anjuman Ara Begum -- 3 Damned by Development: Hydropower Projects and their (Dis) embeddedness in Jammu and Kashmir / Farhana Lateif -- 4 Enframing and Digression: Pandemic, Drought and Migrant Accounts from Western India / Sohini Sengupta -- 5 Living with Floods: Coping with Livelihood Uncertainties in Post-Flood Kerala / Jyothi Krishnan and Abey George -- 6 War, Conflict, Climate Change and Internal Displacement in Afghanistan / Mujib Ahmad Azizi -- Part II In Focus: The Indian Sundarbans : 7 Ecology, Land, and Capitalist Development of a Resource Frontier: The Sundarbans in Colonial Times / Priyankar Dey -- 8 In the Eye of the Storm: Climate Disaster, Ecology and Displacement in the Sundarbans / Piya Srinivasan -- 9 Finding Neverland: The Invisible Journey of Climate Migrants / Dipanjan Sinha -- 10 High/Low: Navigating Cyclones and Covid-19 In The Sundarbans / Shuvankur Ghosh -- 11 Podcast transcripts for the project Climate Disaster, Displacement and the State / Utsa Sarmin -- About the Editor and Authors

"How does climate change intensify social cleavages in new configurations of knowledge and power? How does development respond to its own Contradictions in such scenarios? How do extreme weather events inform population movement and challenge existing population movement and challenge existing definitions of borders and citizenship? Who pays definitions of borders and the heaviest price? Living with the Weather citizenship? Who pays the heaviest price? Living with the Weather addresses these pressing questions by highlighting and exploring the social, economic, political, and spatial dimensions of climate disaster in South Asia.
Through empirical research, reporting and documentation of the climate crisis in the countries of South Asia, along with a deep dive into the Indian Sundarbans, the book calls attention to the intermeshed predicaments the people of the subcontinent face while bearing the brunt of climate change. In doing so, it seeks to enrich our understanding of how climate change transforms everyday life. It makes visible the effects of natural events, the outcomes of political decisions, how disaster and rehabilitation are interpreted by states, how resistances are staged in the form of mobility, and how dispossession and despair are embodied and articulated." --Book cover