The Bangladesh Environmental Humanities Reader

Samina Luthfa; Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan; Munasir Kamal

doi:10.5771/9781498599146

Summary

This volume analyses Bangladesh’s human-nature/environment relationships in terms of development victimhood, environmental injustices, and resistance of the marginalized. It demonstrates how the popular GDP-based economic growth model helps governments undertake “development” projects, threatening the environment and livelihood of the poor while benefiting the affluent. It represents the extant environmentalism in the literary works in Bangla, and tales of pollution, depletion; and human-nature/environment symbiosis that shows ways to resist victimhood. Against current environmental challenges and other environmental issues, this volume presents the epitome of how politics, biodiversity, and technology meet in many cross-cutting pathways.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-9913-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-9914-6
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 304
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. List of Figures and Tables No access
3. Foreword No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 18
1. Part Ia: Environment and New Politics of Space No access
2. 1. Struggles on Ideas for Development and Environment No access
  2. Bangladesh: High Growth with High Disaster No access
  3. Lucrative Commission, Corruption, and Corporate Profit No access
  4. The Coastal Zone and the Killing Projects No access
  5. Open-Pit Mining and the Peoples’ Resistance: Phulbari No access
  6. Conclusion: The Way Out No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. References No access
3. 1. How the Conservation Project Got into Operation No access
  2. Incorporating the LNP-Adjacent Bhanugach Reserve Forest No access
  3. NSP, Concerned Officials, and the 3-D Seismic Survey No access
  4. Engagement with SMEC and the Critical Review of EIA No access
  5. Environmental Monitoring, Chevron, and IUCNB No access
  6. Concluding Remarks No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. References No access
4. 1. Immigrant Activists—British-Bangladeshi and Phulbari Resistance No access
  2. “Boomerang” by “Nesting Pigeons”? No access
  3. Mediating New Connections No access
  4. Maintaining Connections No access
  5. Resources No access
  6. Tensions and Hostility No access
  7. Factions No access
  8. Conclusion No access
  9. Notes No access
  10. References No access
5. 1. Citizenship and the Right to the City No access
  2. Environmental Justice and Rights to Nature No access
  3. Eviction, Citizenship, and the Right to the City No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. References No access
6. 1. Historical Background No access
  2. Environmental Impact No access
  3. Economic Impact No access
  4. Socio-Political Impact No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Note No access
  7. References No access
7. Part Ib: Hazardous Work Environment No access
8. 1. Plot Narrative No access
  2. Environmental Pollution No access
  3. Hazardous Working Environment No access
  4. Labor Rights Violated No access
  5. A Profile of the Company: PHP No access
  6. Scrapping Reality through Film No access
  7. Conclusion No access
  8. Notes No access
  9. References No access
  10. More Information No access
9. 1. Work Environment and Job Satisfaction in the RMG Sector No access
  2. Hypotheses and Model Specification No access
  3. Methodology and Data No access
  4. Results and Analysis No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Note No access
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10. 1. Rana Plaza: Death of a Thousand Dreams No access
  2. The Collapse No access
  3. Those Were Not Numbers—These Were Lives No access
  4. The Stories of the “Missing” No access
  5. Families: Mourn or Search? No access
  6. Conclusion No access
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1. 1. The Fading Golden Age of Shrimps No access
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2. 1. The Author at Samta No access
  2. Samta and the Curse of Arsenicosis No access
  3. National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine (NIPSOM) and Asia Arsenic Network (AAN) No access
  4. Research on Arsenic Contamination and Election of Union Parishad No access
  5. A Visit to the Land of the Rising Sun No access
  6. Struggle against Social Taboo, Justice, and Development No access
  7. Arsenicosis: Curable through Awareness No access
  8. Long-Term Solution: Leading toward Environmental Justice No access
  9. Establishing Environmental Justice No access
  10. Conclusion No access
  11. Note No access
  12. References No access
3. 1. Case Study 1: Memoir of a Duburi by a Retired Female Teacher, Khagrachari No access
  2. Case Study 2: From Duburi to Mother of a Martyr, Marissa, Rangamati No access
  3. Note No access
4. 1. Ethno-Cultural Diversity and Jumma Identity in Chittagong Hill Tracts No access
  2. Kaptai Hydropower Dam and Trauma of Displacement No access
  3. Trauma-Induced Political Awakening No access
  4. Denial of Diversity and Demographic Engineering No access
  5. CHT Accord and Challenges for Political Resolution of Ethnic Conflict No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. References No access
1. 1. Notes No access
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2. 1. Notes No access
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3. 1. References No access
4. 1. Notes No access
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5. 1. Notes No access
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6. 1. I No access
  2. II No access
  3. Notes No access
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1. 1. The Concept No access
  2. The Factors That Regulate Plant Biodiversity No access
  3. The Choice of Those Who Need the Biodiversity in Their Uses No access
  4. People to Promote Maintenance of Biodiversity No access
  5. Approach to Manage Sustainability of Bioresources No access
  6. The Question of Technology and Its Management No access
  7. The Usual Process and Ways to Reversing the Trend No access
  8. The Beneficiaries No access
  9. The Potential Areas of Intervention by Scientists No access
  10. The Transformation of Bangladesh Agriculture No access
  11. Two Case Studies as Examples No access
  12. References No access
2. 1. Major UN Climate Change Conferences: Gaps between Expectations and Reality No access
  2. The Case of Bangladesh: Demands and Disappointments No access
  3. The Way Forward: Who Will Bell the Cat? No access
  4. References No access
Index No access Pages 295 - 300
About the Contributors No access Pages 301 - 304