G Karmakar
Biographic Data
| ID | 68120 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Karmakar |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Karmakar |
| SIGNATURE | KARMAKAR G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durban University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9119-9486 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 61 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Discontents of the Anthropocene: Developmentalism, the Wasteocene, and decoloniality in Sarah Joseph’s Gift in Green
Sarah Joseph’s Gift in Green highlights the ecological and cultural changes occurring in the Pulaya community of Kerala, India, due to capitalist exploitation and extensive commodification of natural resources. The novel’s depictions of ecological devastation juxtaposed with pre-industrial pastoral beauty underscore the discontents of anthropocentrism, namely, the waste and disposability that contemporary capitalism perpetuates. In this context, …
Coloniality, (In)justice, and the Literature of the Global South
Contextualizing decolonial hope: Thinking for coexistence and planetary sustainability
Hope, in its most generic sense, pertains to the ability of humans to aspire to an improved future as a response to adversity and challenges. An intuitive comprehension of belief in hope is fundame
Indigenous Worldviews and Decoloniality in The Deep: Warli Art and the Politics of Decanonization
Analyzing the graphic narrative The Deep (2020) by Warli artists Mayur Vayeda and Tushar Vayeda, this article explores how the narrative, through the employment of Indigenous eco-cosmologies, visual narratology, and material poetics, reconfigures the graphic narrative format. The article annotates how The Deep, by dissolving the rigid fortification of logocentrism in literature, proffers a decolonial epistemological resistance, decentralizing the…
Living in/as Waste: Developmentalism, ‘Slow’ Death and Hope in Macaulay Mowarin’s Veiled Currents
Existential fungibility and war to be human in the Niger Delta: Remaindered life and decolonial reconstruction in Kaine Agary’s Yellow–Yellow
This article analyses how Kaine Agary’s novel Yellow-Yellow serves as a crucial lens for comprehending the bleak and detrimental existence of women in the Niger Delta, who are continuously regarded as expendable and abandoned, thus trapped in a relentless cycle of being deemed as inconsequential within the broader context of anthropocentric and profit-driven capitalism. The article argues that this phenomenon perpetuates a dominant narrative and …
Indigeneity, developmentalism, and sustainability: Trajectories of the Jarawas of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in Pankaj Sekhsaria's The Last Wave and Islands in Flux
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are a fragile archipelago in the Bay of Bengal, designated as a UN-biodiversity hotspot. The islands host numerous species and Indigenous people, threatened by changing climate conditions and human-caused development initiatives. The present article seeks to examine the threatened indigeneity of the Indigenous communities, especially the Jarawas in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (A&N), contextualised in a study of…
Dams, development and disposability: Eco-anxiety, precarity and submerging voices in Na. D’souza’s Dweepa
The construction of large dams in India has faced criticism for its neo-colonial and capitalist practices. This highlights the importance of accountability, the consequences of development discourse, and the tangible impacts on the lives of those affected by dams, development initiatives, displacement, and denial of compensation. The pursuit of large-scale construction projects frequently promotes a conspicuous consumerist perspective, disregardi…
Arboreal Dialogics and Environmental Activism: Multispecies Entanglements in Ben Okri’s Every Leaf a Hallelujah
Nation, Nationalism and Indian Hindi cinema
Nation, family and trauma: Techno-nationalism and conflicts of loyalty in the Indian Hindi-language espionage thriller Mission Majnu
Unfolding Necro-Realities: Politics of Perceiving Human Lives in Toxic African Geographies
Decolonial hope and planetary solidarity: Fostering sustainability through African life narratives
Decoloniality, solidarity, and indigenous ecology: Reading Nemonte Nenquimo's We Will Not Be Saved as hope in the Anthropocene
Towards a critical ecological ontology: Literacy, sustainability, and fostering environmental education through the Indian green informational picturebook
It is widely acknowledged through various studies that comprehending the environment and sustainability can help children cultivate curiosity, insights, and ethical ideals, facilitating ways of enhancing public environmental literacy and leading to a more sustainable future. Environmental education in early childhood has substantial positive effects on social, economic, wellness, and educational elements, aiding in the growth of children’s abilit…
Masculinity, media, and public image: Review of the film An Action Hero
An Action Hero, the directorial debut of Anirudh Iyer, deftly brings to the foreground the representational politics of masculinity and media (Iyer, 2022). The film depicts the enactments of hyperb
Delinking gendered hierarchies and mediated representations: Review of the film Doctor G
Episteme, sports, and media: Review of the film Saina
Epistemologies of an Indian mother and media: Review of Mrs Chatterjee vs Norway
Mrs Chatterjee vs Norway (Chibber, 2023), an Indian Hindi-language legal drama film written and directed by Ashima Chibber, narrates the story of Indian immigrant Debika Chatterjee (played by Rani
Examining (in)justice, environmental activism and indigenous knowledge systems in the Indian film Kantara (Mystical Forest)
The acquisition of knowledge encompasses various dimensions that should be consolidated to facilitate a comprehensive and holistic advancement of its trajectory. In this context, the article explores the film Kantara: A Legend (Shetty in Kantara: a legend [film], Hombale Films, 2022), a Kannada-language production from India and its significance in highlighting the importance of indigenous knowledge systems, local customs, demigods and the sacred…
Plachimada Struggle and the Environmentalism of the Poor: (In)justice and Activism in Mayilamma: The Life of a Tribal Eco-Warrior
Literature, Activism and Transformative Learning
Ecology, Decoloniality, and African Literature
Ecomodernity, decoloniality and environmental justice: Joan Martínez-Alier in conversation with Goutam Karmakar
Joan Martínez-Alier and Goutam Karmakar engage in a conversation where they examine the discourses of the Anthropocene, the Capitalocene, political ecology, and the Entropocene, exploring environmental (in)justices and focussing on decolonial approaches to addressing them. This discussion, as Joan and Goutam believe, can inform readers about the inner workings of colonial capitalism and the extractivist economy, the involvement of environmental a…
Colonial Modernity and Epistemic Hegemony: Rethinking Environmentalism in Kamala Markandaya’s The Coffer Dams
Decolonial hope and planetary solidarity: Fostering sustainability through African life narratives
Extraction and Environmental Injustices: (De)colonial Practices in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were
Environmental degradation, climate crises, and ecological catastrophes effect the countries of the tropics distinctly from those of the Global North, reflecting the ramifications of colonial capitalist epistemes and practices that sanction extraction, commodification, and control of tropical lands and peoples. Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were (2021), set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, bears witness to the history and presence of e…
Tackling Environmental and Epistemic Injustice: Decolonial Approaches for Pluriversal Peacebuilding in South Africa
The paper highlights environmental injustices in South Africa as well as the accompanying continuation of mega-extraction-based violence. In doing so, the paper examines how the history of environmental injustices has left its mark in various parts of this country, where industrialization practices and policies from the apartheid era lead to environmental degradation that disproportionately impacts black people. This exemplifies how epistemic inj…
Cognitive (In)justice and Decoloniality in Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse
Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse (2021) is an insightful deliberation on the layered inequities and asymmetries created by the intersection of colonialism and anthropogenic activities. In The Nutmeg’s Curse , Ghosh conceives the present-day climate and ecological crisis as fallouts of colonial thinking and its manifestations in dominant epistemic and ethical constructions. This article underscores Ghosh’s critique of the Eurocentric discourses f…
Delinking the Capitalist Episteme: Empathy and the Decolonial Turn in Amitav Ghosh’s Jungle Nama
Amitav Ghosh's Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarban (2021), a graphic verse, is a symbolic depiction of the repercussions of the capitalist episteme that sanctions resource extraction, ecological commodification, and anthropogenic activities. Set in the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove delta, Jungle Nama illustrates a confrontation between Dhona, an avaricious merchant who wants to extract and plunder the forest resources, and Bon Bibi, the godd…
Episteme and Ecology: Amitav Ghosh’s The Living Mountain and the Decolonial Turn
Amitav Ghosh's The Living Mountain: A Fable of Our Times (2022) is an allegorical rendering of the repercussions of environmental degradation and the annihilation of indigenous ecological knowledge. As one of the notable public intellectuals of contemporary times, Ghosh in The Living Mountain deliberates on the ramifications of the discourses of colonialism and the Anthropocene, and depicts how those have been complicit in asserting a hegemonic W…
Decoloniality, solidarity, and indigenous ecology: Reading Nemonte Nenquimo's We Will Not Be Saved as hope in the Anthropocene
Transformative Learning with Wangari Maathai: Fostering Environmental Education and Sustainability Through the Green Picturebook Seeds of Change: Planting a Path to Peace
Picturebooks that focus on environmental issues offer children the chance to connect with natural settings, promoting emotional and mental health, while also developing ethical principles and an authentic concern for the environment. This genre possesses the capacity to emotionally captivate children through its combination of text and visuals, potentially resulting in a shift in their perspectives towards the topics and issues being portrayed. I…
Living with extraction: Environmental injustice, slow observation and the decolonial turn in the Niger Delta, Nigeria
Extractive activities in the countries of the Global South, particularly in various regions of Africa, serve as evidence of the pervasive and reinforcing nature of accumulative and commodifying practices, which are deeply rooted in and perpetuate the structural imbalances that have existed since the onset of colonization and the proliferation of colonial capitalism. The historical trajectory of resource and oil exploitation in Africa has been cha…
Feminism, Body, Sexuality and Time: A Conversation with Elizabeth Grosz
This conversation aims to highlight the concepts of the female body and sexuality and experiences of sexual difference. The conversation focuses on notions of corporeality, incorporeality, ‘art of sexuality’, ‘onto-ethics’ and how they may (or may not) address the posthuman future, sustainable future and the temporal movement. The interview references Elizabeth Grosz’s seminal works such as Sexual Subversions (1989), Volatile Bodies (1994), Becom…
Arboreal Dialogics and Environmental Activism: Multispecies Entanglements in Ben Okri’s Every Leaf a Hallelujah
Unfolding Necro-Realities: Politics of Perceiving Human Lives in Toxic African Geographies
Knowledge Born in the Struggle”: Activism, Decolonial Ecology, and Sustainability in Wangari Maathai’s Unbowed: A Memoir
(In)visibility, Mediated, and Sporting Perceptions: Bollywood, Biopics, and the Epistemic Turn in Mary Kom
In recent years several Hindi films have been produced that delineate the difficulties and challenges faced by Indian athletes and boxers, and highlight their sociocultural struggles in asserting their pursuit of and passion for their sport. Mary Kom (2014) is one such Hindi-language biographical sports film based on the life of the eponymous boxer Mary Kom, a film that brings to the foreground the ingrained social prejudices, gender biases and m…
Delinking 'The Gentleman's Game: Visual Epistemic Representations in the FilmShabaash Mithu
Indian Hindi language sports drama films centered on cricket function as performative documentaries depicting the lives, accomplishments, and trajectories of cricketers playing for the India men’s national cricket team, also known as Team India or the Men in Blue. These films, as cultural artifacts, are embedded in the establishment of a homogeneous episteme that consistently fails to offer alternatives to unsustainable development and pluralism …
Politics of self-sacrifice and ecomedia: Review of Sherdil: The Pilibhit Saga (2022)
The body and sexuality in cultural representation: An interview with Susan Bordo
According to Zita, Bordo’s The Flight to Objectivity: Essays on Cartesianism and Culture is ‘one of the most thorough and focused feminist critiques of the masculinization of western philosophy that has been written thus far’ (1990 Zita, Jacquelyn N. (1990). [Review of the book Flight to Objectivity: Essays on Cartesianism and Culture, by Susan Bordo], Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 15(3), 645–648. https://doi.org/10.1086/494617[…
Locating an Interior world of escape in an absurd world: An Existential Reading of Let Us Compare Mythologies and the beginning of Leonard Cohen’s poetics of resistance
Being an intensely personal poet, Leonard Cohen, one of the most important and best known poets of Canada has tried to show the inner turmoil and existential crisis of a poetic mind caught in mechanized and violent society where dehumanization compels him to create an interior world of escape. He shows how man becomes confused, disoriented and dread because of the absurd condition of the world and also tries to precede existence before essence. H…
Identity, Politics and Ecology in Postcolonial War-Torn Society: An Interview with Romesh Gunesekera
The conversation with the Sri Lankan-British novelist, Romesh Gunesekera highlights the complexity of contested issues of home, memory and identity of a South Asian diasporic subject in relation to the political turmoil of a war-torn postcolonial Sri Lanka. The conversation also calls attention to the depletion of the island eco-system in connection with the island’s socio-political upheaval and ethnic conflict. The vulnerability of a subject alo…
A Review of Tagore, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Perceptions, Contestations and Contemporary Relevance
Mohammad A. Quayum is a well-known Tagore scholar and translator who has published several books and articles on this myriad-minded genius, including an article in this particular journal in 2005. The present anthology, Tagore, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism, is Quayum’s fifth book on the writer. It addresses two significant aspects of Tagore’s imagination, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, and the paradoxes and ambiguities associated with them. …
Multi-modal engagement with Aranya: Appropriating ecological awareness in Amruta Patil and Devdutt Pattanaik’s graphic tale Aranyaka: Book of the Forest
This research article will discuss the manner in which multi-modal narratology anchors ecological consciousness in Indian literary and visual practices with special reference to Amruta Patil and Devdutt Pattanaik’s Aranyaka: Book of the Forest. After mapping the different visual-verbal narrative technique and its implications in representing ecological concerns, the paper will show how Aranyaka triggers the ‘ecological thought’ of human and non-h…
Perspectives on nation, identity and politics in the context of contemporary Kashmir: An interview with Nyla Ali Khan
The conversation with Dr Nyla Ali Khan focuses on the issue of Kashmir that has remained the most contested subject since the independence of India and Pakistan. The state of Jammu and Kashmir has a history that is unique owing to its socio-political conditions, demography and geography. It perhaps needs a very critical intervention by historians, litterateurs and politicians. The conversation emphasizes Dr Khan’s views on Kashmir, Kashmiri, and …
Nation, Nationalism and the Public Sphere: Religious Politics in India
The demographic peculiarity of South Asia, India in particular, with a heterogeneous population, affiliating to varied religious communities, brings religion to the center of politics. Nation, Nati
(Re)visiting the past: Wounded history and traumatized memory in Qurratulain Hyder’s s ita betrayed and fireflies in the mist
Qurratulain Hyder is a major stalwart of the new generation of Urdu fiction writers. In her book Naya Afsana, she discusses psychologized realism wherein the past gives way to the present. She also depicts how a human being becomes a representation of the collective past via writings of his/her community's collective past. Blurring every possible binary of past/present, home/world, private/public, Hyder’s neo-historical writings not only expose t…
Revisiting the Ideological Stance of Naga People: An Interview with Easterine Kire
In the literary history of Nagaland, Easterine Kire’s work is significant because of her depiction of the socio-cultural and historical background of Naga people. In this conversation, she touches on many themes including Naga communities’ unique traditions, socio-cultural dynamics, multigenerational indigenous knowledge of tribal people, the community’s heterogenous identity, and the feminist ideology of Naga society. Kire also shows how memory …
Of Capitalism and Animal Oppression: Exploring the Ecological Engagements with Select Crime Fictions of Sunil Gangopadhyay and Samaresh Majumdar
The present article aims to examine the ecological engagements with the Bengali crime fictions, Uncle versus the Poachers (Kakababu bonam Chorashikari) by Sunil Gangopadhyay and The Poisonous Smell of Flower (Ful e Bisher Gandhyo) by Samaresh Majumdar. After drawing a connection between ecology and selected crime fiction, the article endeavors to show how these two works of crime fiction are critical of the capitalist commodification of animals (…
Body, sexuality, marriage and feminism: An interview with Jane Gallop
This conversation draws on the connection between feminist and psychoanalytic theory and how Freudian psychoanalytic theory has inspired feminists to perceive sexuality ‘beyond biology’. It specifically focuses on Jane Gallop’s ideas on sexuality, seduction, feminism, marriage, patriarchy, language, disability and academia through some of her key writings: The Daughter’s Seduction: Feminism and Psychoanalysis (1982), Thinking Through the Body (19…
Feminism, Body, Sexuality and Time: A Conversation with Elizabeth Grosz
This conversation aims to highlight the concepts of the female body and sexuality and experiences of sexual difference. The conversation focuses on notions of corporeality, incorporeality, ‘art of sexuality’, ‘onto-ethics’ and how they may (or may not) address the posthuman future, sustainable future and the temporal movement. The interview references Elizabeth Grosz’s seminal works such as Sexual Subversions (1989), Volatile Bodies (1994), Becom…
The body and sexuality in cultural representation: An interview with Susan Bordo
According to Zita, Bordo’s The Flight to Objectivity: Essays on Cartesianism and Culture is ‘one of the most thorough and focused feminist critiques of the masculinization of western philosophy that has been written thus far’ (1990 Zita, Jacquelyn N. (1990). [Review of the book Flight to Objectivity: Essays on Cartesianism and Culture, by Susan Bordo], Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 15(3), 645–648. https://doi.org/10.1086/494617[…
Identity, Indigeneity and “Mythologerm”: Reading the Stories of Satyajit Ray’s Professor Shonku as Postcolonial Science Fiction
Satyajit Ray’s Professor Shonku stories depict the futuristic inventions and wondrous journeys of Professor Trilokeshwar Shonku, a renowned Bengali scientist of international acclaim. Shonku makes multiple transatlantic journeys, as seen in those stories, for representing Indian research in the international scientific community. His groundbreaking innovations, such as the miracurall pill, the annihilin pistol, and the omniscope, evoke admiration…
Bangladeshi literature in English: A critical anthology
The urge to express creatively in English among the people of what is now Bangladesh goes back to the early days of their colonial encounter with the British. However, the tradition of Bangladeshi literature in English lagged behind its Indian, Pakistani and Sri Lankan counterparts, which have claimed precedence in literary history books and attracted considerable critical discussion. However, it should not be forgotten that from 1947 to 1971, Ba…
Politics of self-sacrifice and ecomedia: Review of Sherdil: The Pilibhit Saga (2022)
Azad Kashmir Reflections in Vikram A. Chandra’s The Srinagar Conspiracy
The contested identity of Kashmir and Kashmiris and their intrinsic pain of hoping for freedom [ Azadi] have found expression through The Srinagar Conspiracy, a novel by Vikram A. Chandra (2000). The article highlights how, through the fractured friendship between a Muslim and a Kashmiri Pandit boy, Chandra traces the upsurge of militant insurgency in Kashmir in the late 1980s and 1990s. The article also examines how the changing dynamics of iden…
Writing the Survivor: The Rape Novel in Late Twentieth-Century American Fiction. Robin E. Field
Writing the Survivor: The Rape Novel in Late Twentieth-Century American Fiction by Robin E. Field investigates the depiction of rape and consensual sex in American literature and popular culture from the 1970s to the twenty-first century. Field points out the line of sexual coercion and consensual sex that separates rape from sex. She draws attention to the problematic representation of coercive sex as the source of ecstatic sexual pleasure for w…
Rooted in the Uprooted: Material Memories of Migration from Kashmir
Studies that prioritize verbal sources of information over other nonverbal sources to retrieve the past often overlook the entirety of what transpired. Documents do not encompass the lives of people, particularly those who were victims of traumatic events such as the insurgency of 1989 in the Kashmir valley. Minority communities from Kashmir were then forced to flee as a result of violence and brutal killings, and mute artifacts became their loya…
The politics of conservation: Examining the human-wildlife conflict in Bollywood ecocinema Sherni (2021)
The present article seeks to situate the Bollywood film, Sherni (2021), directed by Amit Masurkar, within the paradigm of ecocinema. In doing so, the article strives to scrutinize the film’s presentation of multi-level challenges within the system of conservation. The article thus, first explores how the film depicts the challenges arising from the conflict between development and conservation; second, how it investigates the challenges caused by…
Feminist consciousness and warfare: Review of the film Gunjan Saxena – the Kargil Girl (2020)
Rape and retribution: Review of the film A Thursday (2022)
Delinking stigma and vulnerability: HIV/Aids, South African Women and epistemic solidarity through literary narrative
Eleanor Krassen Covan and Dr. Elizabeth Fugate-Whitlock for their kind support and assistance throughout the whole process.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThe authors received financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article from the National Research Foundation of South Africa and from the University of the Western Cape’s UCDG progr…
Extraction and Environmental Injustices: (De)colonial Practices in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were
Environmental degradation, climate crises, and ecological catastrophes effect the countries of the tropics distinctly from those of the Global North, reflecting the ramifications of colonial capitalist epistemes and practices that sanction extraction, commodification, and control of tropical lands and peoples. Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were (2021), set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, bears witness to the history and presence of e…
Tackling Environmental and Epistemic Injustice: Decolonial Approaches for Pluriversal Peacebuilding in South Africa
The paper highlights environmental injustices in South Africa as well as the accompanying continuation of mega-extraction-based violence. In doing so, the paper examines how the history of environmental injustices has left its mark in various parts of this country, where industrialization practices and policies from the apartheid era lead to environmental degradation that disproportionately impacts black people. This exemplifies how epistemic inj…
Cognitive (In)justice and Decoloniality in Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse
Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse (2021) is an insightful deliberation on the layered inequities and asymmetries created by the intersection of colonialism and anthropogenic activities. In The Nutmeg’s Curse , Ghosh conceives the present-day climate and ecological crisis as fallouts of colonial thinking and its manifestations in dominant epistemic and ethical constructions. This article underscores Ghosh’s critique of the Eurocentric discourses f…
Sociology (48 works) · Political science (37 works) · Law (33 works) · Philosophy (26 works) · Politics (23 works) · Gender Studies (21 works) · Ecology (18 works) · Law (18 works) · Environmental ethics (17 works) · Aesthetics (16 works)