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037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books, Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_a301.31 _bGUH/SP
100			_aRamachandra Guha
245			_aSPEAKING WITH NATURE _b: Origins of Indian Environmentalism
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260			_aHaryana _bHarper Collins _c2024
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500			_aBy the canons of orthodox social science, countries like India are not supposed to have an environmental consciousness. They are, as it were, 'too poor to be green'. In this deeply researched book, Ramachandra Guha challenges this narrative by revealing a virtually unknown prehistory of the global movement set far outside Europe or America. Long before the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and well before climate change gained currency as a term, ten remarkable individuals wrote with deep insight about the dangers of environmental abuse from within an Indian context. In strikingly contemporary language, Rabindranath Tagore, Radhakamal Mukerjee, J.C. Kumarappa, Patrick Geddes, Albert and Gabrielle Howard, Mira, Verrier Elwin, K.M. Munshi and M. Krishnan wrote about the forest and the wild, soil and water, urbanization and industrialization. Positing the idea of what Guha calls 'livelihood environmentalism' in contrast to the 'full-stomach environmentalism' of the affluent world, these writers, activists and scientists played a pioneering role in shaping global conversations about humanity's relationship with nature. Spanning more than a century of Indian history and decidedly transnational in reference, Speaking with Nature offers rich resources for considering the threat of climate change today.
650			_aSocial sciences
650			_aSocial Sciences; Sociology and anthropology
650			_aSociology and anthropology
650			_aFormerly: Ecology and community
650			_aSociology of the environment
650			_aEnvironmentalism
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