Ravi Rajan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1370684 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ravi Rajan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ravi |
| FAMILY NAME | Rajan |
| SIGNATURE | RAJAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6359-8500 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Bhopal and Beyond
This chapter seeks to understand the processes that have normalized the pathological and erased the enduring disaster from public notice. It explores why Bhopal has gone from being the potent political issue that it was on December 3, 1984, to a private nonissue, the exact opposite trajectory that many other disasters have traversed. The chapter discusses the factors that have produced and exacerbated vulnerability. On the night of December 2–3, …
Clarence Glacken
Clarence Glacken's magnum opus Traces on the Rhodian Shore, first published in 1967, was an intellectual history about ideas of nature and culture from ancient Greece to the end of the eighteenth century. The Professional Geographer called it 'One of the best and most important books published by a geographer in the English-speaking world in the last hundred years'. Traces remains in print five decades after its initial publication, and is regard…
Technocene
The Environmental Legacy of European Expansion and Colonialism
Recent scholarship on the environmental impacts of European expansion has witnessed significant theoretical discordance. The debate, largely between those who draw upon Foucauldian analysis, postcolonial studies, and the cultural studies of science, on the one hand, and those informed by literatures in world history, intellectual history, economic history, and the history of science, technology and medicine; on the other, is relevant not just to …
The Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change
The Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change responds to the profound crisis of human hierarchies now characterizing the climate crisis. The Declaration, initiated prior to the 2015 COP 21 meeting by scholars from the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE), is one of a convergence of initiatives reflecting the need to understand human rights as intrinsically threatened by climate change. This article introd…
A History of Environmental Justice in India
Indian environmentalism has, for the most part, been about social justice. During the 1970s and 1980s, it was concerned with differential access to natural assets and ecosystem services. The Bhopal Gas Disaster of 1984 raised new issues, pertaining to industrial risk and safety. This article traces the history of environmental justice from the 1970s onward. It describes the perspective of Indira Gandhi, India's Prime Minister from 1967 to 1984, a…
Environmental Justice in India
Ecologies of Hope
This paper is an introduction to a special issue of the Journal of Political Ecology on "Ecologies of Hope." The authors argue that discrete, specific, and often, local actions can create spaces that are bettering human lives and livelihoods. The five papers identify actions and movements that are situated in the "middle" between the individual and larger social and economic formations, and inbetween social and economic status- quo and revolution…
Classical environmentalism and environmental human rights
This article offers an exploration of the ontological differences between classical environmentalist perspectives and those of environmental human rights advocates. It has two substantive parts. The first section is a historical survey of central tenets of traditional forms of environmentalism, which discusses the aesthetic, utilitarian and scientific frameworks therein. The second section similarly examines environmental human rights and, in par…
Science, state and violence
This paper explores the work of a specific group of Indian scholar activists who, during the 1980s, produced a body of writing critical of the Indian state's science, technology and environmental policy. They have been described variously as Luddites, anti-science cranks and polemicists (Guha, 1988 Guha, R. 1988. The alternative science movement: an interim assessment. Lokayan Bulletin, 6(3): 7–25. [Google Scholar]; Nanda, 1991 Nanda, M. 1991. Is…
India's Wildlife History. By Mahesh Rangarajan. Illustrations, bibliography People, Parks and Wildlife
Democracy, Security, Citizenship
Foresters and the politics of colonial agroecology
The Ends of Environmental History
This commentary steps back from the specifics of the foregoing papers in order to take another look at wider historiographical questions with special reference to two, broad issues: the interface between environmental history and the history of ecology, and perspectives on environmental history from the viewpoint of practitioners from different disciplinary, national and regional contexts
The Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change
The Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change responds to the profound crisis of human hierarchies now characterizing the climate crisis. The Declaration, initiated prior to the 2015 COP 21 meeting by scholars from the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE), is one of a convergence of initiatives reflecting the need to understand human rights as intrinsically threatened by climate change. This article introd…
Ecologies of Hope
This paper is an introduction to a special issue of the Journal of Political Ecology on "Ecologies of Hope." The authors argue that discrete, specific, and often, local actions can create spaces that are bettering human lives and livelihoods. The five papers identify actions and movements that are situated in the "middle" between the individual and larger social and economic formations, and inbetween social and economic status- quo and revolution…
Science, state and violence
This paper explores the work of a specific group of Indian scholar activists who, during the 1980s, produced a body of writing critical of the Indian state's science, technology and environmental policy. They have been described variously as Luddites, anti-science cranks and polemicists (Guha, 1988 Guha, R. 1988. The alternative science movement: an interim assessment. Lokayan Bulletin, 6(3): 7–25. [Google Scholar]; Nanda, 1991 Nanda, M. 1991. Is…
Clarence Glacken
Clarence Glacken's magnum opus Traces on the Rhodian Shore, first published in 1967, was an intellectual history about ideas of nature and culture from ancient Greece to the end of the eighteenth century. The Professional Geographer called it 'One of the best and most important books published by a geographer in the English-speaking world in the last hundred years'. Traces remains in print five decades after its initial publication, and is regard…
Classical environmentalism and environmental human rights
This article offers an exploration of the ontological differences between classical environmentalist perspectives and those of environmental human rights advocates. It has two substantive parts. The first section is a historical survey of central tenets of traditional forms of environmentalism, which discusses the aesthetic, utilitarian and scientific frameworks therein. The second section similarly examines environmental human rights and, in par…
Foresters and the politics of colonial agroecology
The Ends of Environmental History
This commentary steps back from the specifics of the foregoing papers in order to take another look at wider historiographical questions with special reference to two, broad issues: the interface between environmental history and the history of ecology, and perspectives on environmental history from the viewpoint of practitioners from different disciplinary, national and regional contexts
The Ends of Environmental History
This commentary steps back from the specifics of the foregoing papers in order to take another look at wider historiographical questions with special reference to two, broad issues: the interface between environmental history and the history of ecology, and perspectives on environmental history from the viewpoint of practitioners from different disciplinary, national and regional contexts
Foresters and the politics of colonial agroecology
India's Wildlife History. By Mahesh Rangarajan. Illustrations, bibliography People, Parks and Wildlife
Democracy, Security, Citizenship
Science, state and violence
This paper explores the work of a specific group of Indian scholar activists who, during the 1980s, produced a body of writing critical of the Indian state's science, technology and environmental policy. They have been described variously as Luddites, anti-science cranks and polemicists (Guha, 1988 Guha, R. 1988. The alternative science movement: an interim assessment. Lokayan Bulletin, 6(3): 7–25. [Google Scholar]; Nanda, 1991 Nanda, M. 1991. Is…
Classical environmentalism and environmental human rights
This article offers an exploration of the ontological differences between classical environmentalist perspectives and those of environmental human rights advocates. It has two substantive parts. The first section is a historical survey of central tenets of traditional forms of environmentalism, which discusses the aesthetic, utilitarian and scientific frameworks therein. The second section similarly examines environmental human rights and, in par…
Ecologies of Hope
This paper is an introduction to a special issue of the Journal of Political Ecology on "Ecologies of Hope." The authors argue that discrete, specific, and often, local actions can create spaces that are bettering human lives and livelihoods. The five papers identify actions and movements that are situated in the "middle" between the individual and larger social and economic formations, and inbetween social and economic status- quo and revolution…
A History of Environmental Justice in India
Indian environmentalism has, for the most part, been about social justice. During the 1970s and 1980s, it was concerned with differential access to natural assets and ecosystem services. The Bhopal Gas Disaster of 1984 raised new issues, pertaining to industrial risk and safety. This article traces the history of environmental justice from the 1970s onward. It describes the perspective of Indira Gandhi, India's Prime Minister from 1967 to 1984, a…
Environmental Justice in India
The Environmental Legacy of European Expansion and Colonialism
Recent scholarship on the environmental impacts of European expansion has witnessed significant theoretical discordance. The debate, largely between those who draw upon Foucauldian analysis, postcolonial studies, and the cultural studies of science, on the one hand, and those informed by literatures in world history, intellectual history, economic history, and the history of science, technology and medicine; on the other, is relevant not just to …
The Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change
The Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change responds to the profound crisis of human hierarchies now characterizing the climate crisis. The Declaration, initiated prior to the 2015 COP 21 meeting by scholars from the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE), is one of a convergence of initiatives reflecting the need to understand human rights as intrinsically threatened by climate change. This article introd…
Clarence Glacken
Clarence Glacken's magnum opus Traces on the Rhodian Shore, first published in 1967, was an intellectual history about ideas of nature and culture from ancient Greece to the end of the eighteenth century. The Professional Geographer called it 'One of the best and most important books published by a geographer in the English-speaking world in the last hundred years'. Traces remains in print five decades after its initial publication, and is regard…
Technocene
Bhopal and Beyond
This chapter seeks to understand the processes that have normalized the pathological and erased the enduring disaster from public notice. It explores why Bhopal has gone from being the potent political issue that it was on December 3, 1984, to a private nonissue, the exact opposite trajectory that many other disasters have traversed. The chapter discusses the factors that have produced and exacerbated vulnerability. On the night of December 2–3, …
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