C Dewan
Biographic Data
| ID | 71651 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Dewan |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Dewan |
| SIGNATURE | DEWAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3377-2413 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from the Global South
Climate-induced redistribution of people is not inevitable
Climate-induced redistribution of people is not inevitable, Boas, Ingrid, Sterly, Harald, Farbotko, Carol, Hulme, Mike, Benveniste, Hélène, Schewel, Kerilyn D, Bettini, Giovanni, Borderon, Marion, Hoffmann, Roman, van der Geest, Kees, Durand-Delacre, David, Selby, Jan, Wrathall, David J, Baldwin, Andrew, Benítez Cortés, Ailín, Bukari, Kaderi N, Bunchuay-Peth, Simon, Capisani, Simona, Codjoe, Samuel Nii Ardey, Dahm, Ruben, Dewan, Camelia, Dijstelb…
Contesting inevitable salinity: Brackish aquaculture, cyclonic vulnerabilities and the politics of Delta planning in coastal Bangladesh
This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork on Bangladesh's southwest coastal zone to problematise the ways in which ‘climate reductive translations’ of salinity ignore the politically embedded violence of tiger-prawn cultivation. Such brackish aquaculture is enabled through installation of pipes and sluice gates to inundate previously arable lands with saline water during the dry season. These damaging interventions undermine the structural int…
Polluted Transformations of Fluid Commons in Bangladesh: Shipbreaking and ‘Enclosure by Contamination
This article examines the compound dispossessions experienced by Zele fishermen in a wetlands ecology materially transformed by pollution. 'Enclosure by contamination' conceptualizes how capitalist activities can change the biophysical properties of commons with dispossessive effects on human and more-than-human health and abilities to sustain life, far beyond sites of extraction. By historicizing enclosures in Bengal, I suggest that the term kha…
Affective assemblages of kinship and single mothers' labour migration from a 'climate hotspot
In coastal Bangladesh, 'affective assemblages of kinship' produce differential abilities for landless single mothers to migrate to brick kilns, the garment industry, and the Gulf. This group of women who return to their natal homes as a response to violence or abandonment is neglected by anthropologists of kinship and migration. Thinking of assemblages of kinship as open-ended gatherings enables us to move away from fixed genealogical constructs …
Fluid Dispossessions: Contested Waters in Capitalist Natures
This special issue on '"Fluid Dispossessions': Contested Waters in Capitalist Natures" examines the multiple and mutable relationships between water, dispossession and property. We use 'fluid dispossessions' as an analytical prompt to examine the different ways in which water's biophysical properties, its material fluidity and movements (and the more-than-human species that move with it), shape processes of capitalist extraction, accumulation and…
Toxic Residues in Fluid Commons: More-Than-Economic Dispossession and Shipbreaking in Coastal Bangladesh
This article examines processes of 'more-than-economic dispossession' arising from pollution in the interconnected forests, tides, canals, rivers and humid airs - the fluid commons - of the shipbreaking region Sitakunda. It ethnographically explores how minority Zele fishermen and shipbreaking workers are experiencing three interrelated forms of 'more-than-economic' dispossession. First, extra-economic means of accumulating profits by dismantling…
Global containments and local leakages: Structural violence and the toxic flows of shipbreaking
This article explores how ship recycling—an essential part of the shipping economy—results in breaking up toxic vessels that leak hazardous materials into coastal communities and wetlands ecologies of South Asia. Drawing on multi-scaled and multisited ethnographic fieldwork with shipbreaking workers and local fishing communities in Chattogram, Bangladesh as well as with shipbreaking yard owners, maritime consultants, and government officials, we …
Introduction to special issue: “Scaled ethnographies of toxic flows”
Societal concerns over ‘toxic’ substances have become ubiquitous as human and more-than-human entanglements with toxicity are ever-increasing; people are now living in a ‘permanently polluted world’. Ethnographies that focus specifically on making visible the uneven geographies of ‘toxic flows’ expand interdisciplinary research on the spatialization of a ‘toxic’ politics. By highlighting the structural inequalities of poisonous exposure in everyd…
Climate refugees or labour migrants? climate reductive translations of women's migration from coastal Bangladesh
Climate reductive translations of migration attract international attention, but result in three problematic misreadings of Bangladesh's socioecological landscape. First, attributing migration to climate change misreads coastal vulnerabilities and the importance of migration as a gendered livelihood strategy to deal with rural precarity and debt- both in the past and present. Second, misreading migration caused by brackish tiger-prawn cultivation…
Container Ships: Life Cycles, Chains of Value, and Labor in Maritime Logistics
Goods moved on board container ships constitute 70 percent of all world cargo by economic value, which makes container ships vital things in the broader agglomeration of contemporary global capitalism. These vessels are in themselves also containers of other forms of value: they on occasion store, move, and disperse noneconomic forms of social worth. Building on the insights of critical logistics studies and coupling them with anthropological ins…
Overcoming challenges for implementing nature-based solutions in deltaic environments: Insights from the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta in Bangladesh
The Ganges-Brahmaputra (GB) delta is one of the most disaster-prone areas in the world due to a combination of high population density and exposure to tropical cyclones, floods, salinity intrusion and other hazards. Due to the complexity of natural deltaic processes and human influence on these processes, structural solutions like embankments are inadequate on their own for effective hazard mitigation. This article examines nature-based solutions…
Climate Change as a Spice: Brokering Environmental Knowledge in Bangladesh's Development Industry
This article examines whether the use of climate change as a 'spice' in order to attract donor funding may instead exacerbate existing environmental problems. The World Bank's latest adaptation project in coastal Bangladesh aims to create higher and wider embankments against rising sea levels. This disregards a long history of how embankments, by stopping beneficial monsoon inundations, result in dying rivers and damaging floods that devastate ru…
Embanking the Sundarbans: The Obfuscating Discourse of Climate Change
Living with toxic development: Shipbreaking in the industrializing zone of Sitakunda, Bangladesh
Based on ethnographic fieldwork among local communities and shipbreaking workers, this essay focuses on the lived experiences of toxicity in the rapidly industrializing zone of Sitakunda, Bangladesh. Shipbreaking is receiving attention as a zone of toxic exposure. There is pressure for increased regulation and protection for workers. In contrast, other forms of pollution in the industrial zone of Sitakunda, such as water, air and noise pollution,…
Climate Change as a Spice: Brokering Environmental Knowledge in Bangladesh's Development Industry
This article examines whether the use of climate change as a 'spice' in order to attract donor funding may instead exacerbate existing environmental problems. The World Bank's latest adaptation project in coastal Bangladesh aims to create higher and wider embankments against rising sea levels. This disregards a long history of how embankments, by stopping beneficial monsoon inundations, result in dying rivers and damaging floods that devastate ru…
Climate refugees or labour migrants? climate reductive translations of women's migration from coastal Bangladesh
Climate reductive translations of migration attract international attention, but result in three problematic misreadings of Bangladesh's socioecological landscape. First, attributing migration to climate change misreads coastal vulnerabilities and the importance of migration as a gendered livelihood strategy to deal with rural precarity and debt- both in the past and present. Second, misreading migration caused by brackish tiger-prawn cultivation…
Fluid Dispossessions: Contested Waters in Capitalist Natures
This special issue on '"Fluid Dispossessions': Contested Waters in Capitalist Natures" examines the multiple and mutable relationships between water, dispossession and property. We use 'fluid dispossessions' as an analytical prompt to examine the different ways in which water's biophysical properties, its material fluidity and movements (and the more-than-human species that move with it), shape processes of capitalist extraction, accumulation and…
Toxic Residues in Fluid Commons: More-Than-Economic Dispossession and Shipbreaking in Coastal Bangladesh
This article examines processes of 'more-than-economic dispossession' arising from pollution in the interconnected forests, tides, canals, rivers and humid airs - the fluid commons - of the shipbreaking region Sitakunda. It ethnographically explores how minority Zele fishermen and shipbreaking workers are experiencing three interrelated forms of 'more-than-economic' dispossession. First, extra-economic means of accumulating profits by dismantling…
Global containments and local leakages: Structural violence and the toxic flows of shipbreaking
This article explores how ship recycling—an essential part of the shipping economy—results in breaking up toxic vessels that leak hazardous materials into coastal communities and wetlands ecologies of South Asia. Drawing on multi-scaled and multisited ethnographic fieldwork with shipbreaking workers and local fishing communities in Chattogram, Bangladesh as well as with shipbreaking yard owners, maritime consultants, and government officials, we …
Living with toxic development: Shipbreaking in the industrializing zone of Sitakunda, Bangladesh
Based on ethnographic fieldwork among local communities and shipbreaking workers, this essay focuses on the lived experiences of toxicity in the rapidly industrializing zone of Sitakunda, Bangladesh. Shipbreaking is receiving attention as a zone of toxic exposure. There is pressure for increased regulation and protection for workers. In contrast, other forms of pollution in the industrial zone of Sitakunda, such as water, air and noise pollution,…
Introduction to special issue: “Scaled ethnographies of toxic flows”
Societal concerns over ‘toxic’ substances have become ubiquitous as human and more-than-human entanglements with toxicity are ever-increasing; people are now living in a ‘permanently polluted world’. Ethnographies that focus specifically on making visible the uneven geographies of ‘toxic flows’ expand interdisciplinary research on the spatialization of a ‘toxic’ politics. By highlighting the structural inequalities of poisonous exposure in everyd…
Affective assemblages of kinship and single mothers' labour migration from a 'climate hotspot
In coastal Bangladesh, 'affective assemblages of kinship' produce differential abilities for landless single mothers to migrate to brick kilns, the garment industry, and the Gulf. This group of women who return to their natal homes as a response to violence or abandonment is neglected by anthropologists of kinship and migration. Thinking of assemblages of kinship as open-ended gatherings enables us to move away from fixed genealogical constructs …
Living with toxic development: Shipbreaking in the industrializing zone of Sitakunda, Bangladesh
Based on ethnographic fieldwork among local communities and shipbreaking workers, this essay focuses on the lived experiences of toxicity in the rapidly industrializing zone of Sitakunda, Bangladesh. Shipbreaking is receiving attention as a zone of toxic exposure. There is pressure for increased regulation and protection for workers. In contrast, other forms of pollution in the industrial zone of Sitakunda, such as water, air and noise pollution,…
Embanking the Sundarbans: The Obfuscating Discourse of Climate Change
Container Ships: Life Cycles, Chains of Value, and Labor in Maritime Logistics
Goods moved on board container ships constitute 70 percent of all world cargo by economic value, which makes container ships vital things in the broader agglomeration of contemporary global capitalism. These vessels are in themselves also containers of other forms of value: they on occasion store, move, and disperse noneconomic forms of social worth. Building on the insights of critical logistics studies and coupling them with anthropological ins…
Overcoming challenges for implementing nature-based solutions in deltaic environments: Insights from the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta in Bangladesh
The Ganges-Brahmaputra (GB) delta is one of the most disaster-prone areas in the world due to a combination of high population density and exposure to tropical cyclones, floods, salinity intrusion and other hazards. Due to the complexity of natural deltaic processes and human influence on these processes, structural solutions like embankments are inadequate on their own for effective hazard mitigation. This article examines nature-based solutions…
Climate Change as a Spice: Brokering Environmental Knowledge in Bangladesh's Development Industry
This article examines whether the use of climate change as a 'spice' in order to attract donor funding may instead exacerbate existing environmental problems. The World Bank's latest adaptation project in coastal Bangladesh aims to create higher and wider embankments against rising sea levels. This disregards a long history of how embankments, by stopping beneficial monsoon inundations, result in dying rivers and damaging floods that devastate ru…
Global containments and local leakages: Structural violence and the toxic flows of shipbreaking
This article explores how ship recycling—an essential part of the shipping economy—results in breaking up toxic vessels that leak hazardous materials into coastal communities and wetlands ecologies of South Asia. Drawing on multi-scaled and multisited ethnographic fieldwork with shipbreaking workers and local fishing communities in Chattogram, Bangladesh as well as with shipbreaking yard owners, maritime consultants, and government officials, we …
Introduction to special issue: “Scaled ethnographies of toxic flows”
Societal concerns over ‘toxic’ substances have become ubiquitous as human and more-than-human entanglements with toxicity are ever-increasing; people are now living in a ‘permanently polluted world’. Ethnographies that focus specifically on making visible the uneven geographies of ‘toxic flows’ expand interdisciplinary research on the spatialization of a ‘toxic’ politics. By highlighting the structural inequalities of poisonous exposure in everyd…
Climate refugees or labour migrants? climate reductive translations of women's migration from coastal Bangladesh
Climate reductive translations of migration attract international attention, but result in three problematic misreadings of Bangladesh's socioecological landscape. First, attributing migration to climate change misreads coastal vulnerabilities and the importance of migration as a gendered livelihood strategy to deal with rural precarity and debt- both in the past and present. Second, misreading migration caused by brackish tiger-prawn cultivation…
Polluted Transformations of Fluid Commons in Bangladesh: Shipbreaking and ‘Enclosure by Contamination
This article examines the compound dispossessions experienced by Zele fishermen in a wetlands ecology materially transformed by pollution. 'Enclosure by contamination' conceptualizes how capitalist activities can change the biophysical properties of commons with dispossessive effects on human and more-than-human health and abilities to sustain life, far beyond sites of extraction. By historicizing enclosures in Bengal, I suggest that the term kha…
Affective assemblages of kinship and single mothers' labour migration from a 'climate hotspot
In coastal Bangladesh, 'affective assemblages of kinship' produce differential abilities for landless single mothers to migrate to brick kilns, the garment industry, and the Gulf. This group of women who return to their natal homes as a response to violence or abandonment is neglected by anthropologists of kinship and migration. Thinking of assemblages of kinship as open-ended gatherings enables us to move away from fixed genealogical constructs …
Fluid Dispossessions: Contested Waters in Capitalist Natures
This special issue on '"Fluid Dispossessions': Contested Waters in Capitalist Natures" examines the multiple and mutable relationships between water, dispossession and property. We use 'fluid dispossessions' as an analytical prompt to examine the different ways in which water's biophysical properties, its material fluidity and movements (and the more-than-human species that move with it), shape processes of capitalist extraction, accumulation and…
Toxic Residues in Fluid Commons: More-Than-Economic Dispossession and Shipbreaking in Coastal Bangladesh
This article examines processes of 'more-than-economic dispossession' arising from pollution in the interconnected forests, tides, canals, rivers and humid airs - the fluid commons - of the shipbreaking region Sitakunda. It ethnographically explores how minority Zele fishermen and shipbreaking workers are experiencing three interrelated forms of 'more-than-economic' dispossession. First, extra-economic means of accumulating profits by dismantling…
Climate-induced redistribution of people is not inevitable
Climate-induced redistribution of people is not inevitable, Boas, Ingrid, Sterly, Harald, Farbotko, Carol, Hulme, Mike, Benveniste, Hélène, Schewel, Kerilyn D, Bettini, Giovanni, Borderon, Marion, Hoffmann, Roman, van der Geest, Kees, Durand-Delacre, David, Selby, Jan, Wrathall, David J, Baldwin, Andrew, Benítez Cortés, Ailín, Bukari, Kaderi N, Bunchuay-Peth, Simon, Capisani, Simona, Codjoe, Samuel Nii Ardey, Dahm, Ruben, Dewan, Camelia, Dijstelb…
Contesting inevitable salinity: Brackish aquaculture, cyclonic vulnerabilities and the politics of Delta planning in coastal Bangladesh
This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork on Bangladesh's southwest coastal zone to problematise the ways in which ‘climate reductive translations’ of salinity ignore the politically embedded violence of tiger-prawn cultivation. Such brackish aquaculture is enabled through installation of pipes and sluice gates to inundate previously arable lands with saline water during the dry season. These damaging interventions undermine the structural int…
In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from the Global South
Political science (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Climate change (4 works) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (4 works)