Desertscapes in the Global South and Beyond: Anthropocene Naturecultures

This volume explores the different facets of Anthropocene naturecultures in desert biomes of the Global South and beyond, articulating issues of desertification, indigeneity, and re-inhabitation. It re-imagines the desert's rich biodiversity and engages in an intertextual conversation with colonial genres to forge a topographically informed desert identity. It also includes literary exploration of environmental injustices and employs place-based ecocritical frameworks to imagine a sustainable way of life.

Format: Hardback
Length: 244 pages
Publication date: 29 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Embracing a rich diversity of voices, this volume seeks to explore the multifaceted aspects of Anthropocene nature-cultures in the desert biomes of the Global South and beyond. Essays in this collection will articulate issues of desertification, indigeneity, and re-inhabitation in narratives that thread together Tibet, China, Australia, India, South Mexico, South Africa, and Brazil in all their richness and complexity.

Re-imagining the desert's rich biodiversity, this book presents new ways to envision human relationships to natural ecology and mindful accountability, tracing complex narrative connections and challenging hegemonic norms of its role in the co-construction of identity, affect, and gender. Essays also aim to engage in an intertextual conversation with colonial genres that influence the popular conception of these spaces, moving beyond the usual tropes to forge a topographically informed desert identity and posit a 'nature-culture ecosystem based on the interpenetration of landscape, culture, and history.

This diverse volume will provide a significant contribution to desert humanities from the Global South, responding to the pressing problems of the Anthropocene and employing place-based ecocritical frameworks that help us imagine a sustainable way of life.

Weight: 650g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032249254