Megnaa Mehtta
Biographic Data
| ID | 78620 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Megnaa Mehtta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Megnaa |
| FAMILY NAME | Mehtta |
| SIGNATURE | MEHTTA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sheffield Institute for International Development (SIID), Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences University of Sheffield 219 Portobello Broomhall Sheffield S1 4DP UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Inhabiting the surrounds
Intimate Antagonisms and Unlikely Friendships between State and Society in the Sundarbans Forests of India
Asian Studies
Nonhuman Governance
The current ecological crisis and its accompanying environmental consciousness has prodded many to reject Western dualism and instead embrace animism. Taking the Sundarbans forests of India as a starting point, the author shows how several animated, nonhuman agents of the region guide both resource use and social relationships through a set of rules known as the “rules of the jungle.” The source of these rules are deities, demons, and spirits—tha…
Crab antics
The livelihood of crab collecting, practised for generations in the Sundarbans forest of India, has undergone a radical moral makeover in recent years. Largely landless crab fishers are now the subject of frequent public denunciations by local authorities for their supposed greed and reckless endangerment of the entire ecosystem. While greed and its related category of need emerge from a local moral ecology of the region, internationally funded c…
Crab antics
The livelihood of crab collecting, practised for generations in the Sundarbans forest of India, has undergone a radical moral makeover in recent years. Largely landless crab fishers are now the subject of frequent public denunciations by local authorities for their supposed greed and reckless endangerment of the entire ecosystem. While greed and its related category of need emerge from a local moral ecology of the region, internationally funded c…
Nonhuman Governance
The current ecological crisis and its accompanying environmental consciousness has prodded many to reject Western dualism and instead embrace animism. Taking the Sundarbans forests of India as a starting point, the author shows how several animated, nonhuman agents of the region guide both resource use and social relationships through a set of rules known as the “rules of the jungle.” The source of these rules are deities, demons, and spirits—tha…
Crab antics
The livelihood of crab collecting, practised for generations in the Sundarbans forest of India, has undergone a radical moral makeover in recent years. Largely landless crab fishers are now the subject of frequent public denunciations by local authorities for their supposed greed and reckless endangerment of the entire ecosystem. While greed and its related category of need emerge from a local moral ecology of the region, internationally funded c…
Nonhuman Governance
The current ecological crisis and its accompanying environmental consciousness has prodded many to reject Western dualism and instead embrace animism. Taking the Sundarbans forests of India as a starting point, the author shows how several animated, nonhuman agents of the region guide both resource use and social relationships through a set of rules known as the “rules of the jungle.” The source of these rules are deities, demons, and spirits—tha…
Intimate Antagonisms and Unlikely Friendships between State and Society in the Sundarbans Forests of India
Asian Studies
Inhabiting the surrounds
Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · State (computer science (2 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (2 works) · Animism (1 work)