Swarnalatha Rangarajan
Biographic Data
| ID | 253975 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Swarnalatha Rangarajan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Swarnalatha |
| FAMILY NAME | Rangarajan |
| SIGNATURE | RANGARAJAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Madras |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2391-422X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mother Trees and Memory Keepers: Botanical Life in Recent Indian Children’s Climate Fiction
Planting the Empire: Botanical Imagery, Colonialism, and the Plantation Life in Mulk Raj Anand’s Two Leaves and a Bud
The violence of colonialism takes many forms, of which ecological violence directed towards the landscape constitutes an important point of consideration. The rise of the plantation system, which led to the forced migration of humans and the mass transplantation of plants is inseparable from the history of colonialism. This article will analyse how Indian author Mulk Raj Anand narrativizes the colonial plantation system of early 20 th century Ind…
Connecting Amid the Chaos: Gary Snyder’s Vision of the ‘Great Earth Sangha’ in the Anthropocene
Gary Snyder’s vision of the ‘great earth sangha’ articulates a philosophy of ecological awakening in which spiritual, ethical, and affective relationships connect all forms of life into a cohesive and sacred web of interbeing. The concept of the ‘great earth sangha’ embodies a profound sense of ‘oneness,’ in which the dichotomy between the self and the other dissolves, leading to a realisation of the Earth as a sentient, experiential, and pulsati…
I Hoped for Healing: Exploring Heart-Centric Ecologies of Recuperation in the Eco-Memoirs of Linda Hogan and Leslie Marmon Silko
Storying Anthropocene Waters: Advocacy through Resacralization in Postcolonial River Narratives of the Indian Subcontinent
Against the background of contemporary debates about the Anthropocene and the attendant danger of global warming and climate change, which is causally linked to the unchecked exploitation of the earth by humans, narratives which embody an earth-centric scientia sacra become tools of advocacy for the 'resacralization' of the earth. This paper explores three South Asian river narratives that offer a blueprint for mindfully inhabiting the earth unde…
When the ' gormen ' (government) - walled up the rivers: Reading Sarah Joseph's Budhini as contemporary Indian hydrofiction
In India, nationalist discourses surrounding hydro-modernity rely heavily on the mega-dam as a political symbol that promised technological progress. New critical perspectives like the "blue humanities" allow the exploration of the politics and poetics of "dam narratives" from India that respond to the infrastructural imaginary of the mega-dam. This article will analyse Sarah Joseph's novel Budhini as a hydrofiction centred around hydropower. It …
“Do you think it is a Pandemic?” Apocalypse, Anxiety and the Environmental Grotesque in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl
Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl (2009), set in the post fossil-fuel, post turbo-capitalist country of Thailand, portrays the shocking after effects of bioengineering and gene-hack modifications in food crops. The narrative depicts a country tottering on the brink of an agricultural apocalypse on account of food production being severely affected by crop driven anomalies and rogue diseases such as “cibiscosis” and “blister rust” transmitted by …
Marine Entanglements: Tropical Materialism and Hydrographic Imaginary in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon
In the epoch of the Anthropocene the environment is predominantly characterised by innumerable entanglements of matter. According to materialist theorist Jane Bennett, matter acts as a ‘distributive agency’ that intertwines itself with a “multiplicity of other material bodies and formations'' across space and time (Khan, 2012, p. 42). Nnedi Okorafor’s novel Lagoon (2014) centres around the material entanglement scenario between oil and marine wat…
Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication
Women Writing Nature in the Global South: New Forest Texts from Fractured Indian Forests
The Flowing Mirror
Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication
Marine Entanglements: Tropical Materialism and Hydrographic Imaginary in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon
In the epoch of the Anthropocene the environment is predominantly characterised by innumerable entanglements of matter. According to materialist theorist Jane Bennett, matter acts as a ‘distributive agency’ that intertwines itself with a “multiplicity of other material bodies and formations'' across space and time (Khan, 2012, p. 42). Nnedi Okorafor’s novel Lagoon (2014) centres around the material entanglement scenario between oil and marine wat…
The Flowing Mirror
Women Writing Nature in the Global South: New Forest Texts from Fractured Indian Forests
Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication
“Do you think it is a Pandemic?” Apocalypse, Anxiety and the Environmental Grotesque in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl
Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl (2009), set in the post fossil-fuel, post turbo-capitalist country of Thailand, portrays the shocking after effects of bioengineering and gene-hack modifications in food crops. The narrative depicts a country tottering on the brink of an agricultural apocalypse on account of food production being severely affected by crop driven anomalies and rogue diseases such as “cibiscosis” and “blister rust” transmitted by …
Marine Entanglements: Tropical Materialism and Hydrographic Imaginary in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon
In the epoch of the Anthropocene the environment is predominantly characterised by innumerable entanglements of matter. According to materialist theorist Jane Bennett, matter acts as a ‘distributive agency’ that intertwines itself with a “multiplicity of other material bodies and formations'' across space and time (Khan, 2012, p. 42). Nnedi Okorafor’s novel Lagoon (2014) centres around the material entanglement scenario between oil and marine wat…
Storying Anthropocene Waters: Advocacy through Resacralization in Postcolonial River Narratives of the Indian Subcontinent
Against the background of contemporary debates about the Anthropocene and the attendant danger of global warming and climate change, which is causally linked to the unchecked exploitation of the earth by humans, narratives which embody an earth-centric scientia sacra become tools of advocacy for the 'resacralization' of the earth. This paper explores three South Asian river narratives that offer a blueprint for mindfully inhabiting the earth unde…
When the ' gormen ' (government) - walled up the rivers: Reading Sarah Joseph's Budhini as contemporary Indian hydrofiction
In India, nationalist discourses surrounding hydro-modernity rely heavily on the mega-dam as a political symbol that promised technological progress. New critical perspectives like the "blue humanities" allow the exploration of the politics and poetics of "dam narratives" from India that respond to the infrastructural imaginary of the mega-dam. This article will analyse Sarah Joseph's novel Budhini as a hydrofiction centred around hydropower. It …
I Hoped for Healing: Exploring Heart-Centric Ecologies of Recuperation in the Eco-Memoirs of Linda Hogan and Leslie Marmon Silko
Mother Trees and Memory Keepers: Botanical Life in Recent Indian Children’s Climate Fiction
Planting the Empire: Botanical Imagery, Colonialism, and the Plantation Life in Mulk Raj Anand’s Two Leaves and a Bud
The violence of colonialism takes many forms, of which ecological violence directed towards the landscape constitutes an important point of consideration. The rise of the plantation system, which led to the forced migration of humans and the mass transplantation of plants is inseparable from the history of colonialism. This article will analyse how Indian author Mulk Raj Anand narrativizes the colonial plantation system of early 20 th century Ind…
Connecting Amid the Chaos: Gary Snyder’s Vision of the ‘Great Earth Sangha’ in the Anthropocene
Gary Snyder’s vision of the ‘great earth sangha’ articulates a philosophy of ecological awakening in which spiritual, ethical, and affective relationships connect all forms of life into a cohesive and sacred web of interbeing. The concept of the ‘great earth sangha’ embodies a profound sense of ‘oneness,’ in which the dichotomy between the self and the other dissolves, leading to a realisation of the Earth as a sentient, experiential, and pulsati…
Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (5 works) · History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Anthropocene (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Biology (2 works)