Environmental Ethics Life Narratives From Kashmir & Palestine

Description

Original, unique, and a significant addition to the humanities scholarship, this book illuminates the historical amnesia in the environmental movement and eco-thought in relation to ongoing violence of dispossession in the colonies of postcolonial states. Tracing the ecological ethics in Kashmir and Palestine while choosing to read personal narratives as cultural texts, Aamir’s individual exegesis of these texts offers key contemporary imaginaries on eco-politics. Her book may be a good source to understand global anxieties about ecocide beyond the emerging postcolonial critique of environmentalism. She manages to challenge postcolonial eco-critique that has typically tended to train its focus more on global “developed” vs “third world” dynamic without disaggregating the postcolonial world itself along a logic of hierarchy.

Mohamad Junaid
Sociocultural Anthropologist
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, USA.
https://www.mcla.edu/about-mcla/faculty/mohamad-junaid.php

The book stands out as a unique and timely contribution to the emerging field of environmental ethics in the context of two palpitating geo-historical nodes — Palestine and Kashmir. The eco-postcolonial discourse, perceived through the lens of literary life narratives of selected authors, underscores the crucial tenets of political resistance that aim to address the issues of marginalization and erasure as experienced and lived out by Kashmiris and Palestininas in particular and people across the globe in general.

Nadia Anwar
Associate Professor
Department of English and Literary Studies
Dean, Institute of Liberal Arts
University of Management and Technology, Lahore
Author of Dynamics of Distancing in Nigerian Drama:
A Functional Approach to Metatheatre

Author Biography

Rabia Aamir is an Assistant Professor of English at the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan, an HEC Approved Supervisor, and a former awardee of PhD Research Fellowship at the Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, New York, USA (2018-19). She has a teaching experience of more than twenty years at different levels and is a recipient of the Best University Teacher Award for the year 2021-22. With her well-cited publications in international journals and presentations at numerous international conferences, she also contributes poetry to magazines and anthologies. Dr. Rabia has experience of conducting various faculty development programs and conferences, moderating talks, and doing several voiceovers for documentaries. Her recent contributions include book chapters and a petite poetic memoir about the times of her growing up in Lahore. Her research domains include American Fiction, Native American literature, Post 9/11 Pakistani Fiction, Middle Eastern and Kashmiri Literary and visual narratives, Film Studies, and Postcolonial Environmental Ethics. This book, Environmental Ethics: Life Narratives from Kashmir & Palestine examines the environmental ethical concerns in the literary and visual narratives of Kashmir and Palestine. It can be a relevant resource material for scholars studying resistance literature coming from different flashpoints around the world and is meant to address the larger canvas of troubled realms of our world in contemporary times. Middle Eastern and Kashmiri Literary and visual narratives, Film Studies, and Postcolonial Environmental Ethics. This book, Environmental Ethics: Life Narratives from Kashmir & Palestine examines the environmental ethical concerns in the literary and visual narratives of Kashmir and Palestine. It can be a relevant resource material for scholars studying resistance literature coming from different flashpoints around the world and is meant to address the larger canvas of troubled realms of our world in contemporary times.