Storying Anthropocene Waters
Advocacy through Resacralization in Postcolonial River Narratives of the Indian Subcontinent
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3264232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ashwini Hegde (0009-0005-4526-6608, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, corresponding author), Swarnalatha Rangarajan (0000-0003-2391-422X, Indian Institute of Technology Madras) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1222 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel15101222 |
| OpenAlex | W4403214882 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 16 |
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 under the shadow of the Anthropocene. Calling for a participatory relationship with the holiness of water, they challenge the construction of water in a rapidly globalizing, uneven society shaped by a colonial hydrology in which the ecological relationship between land and water is out of balance. Drawing attention to the multiple ways in which the human and non-human world are enmeshed in the Anthropocene, these narratives engage with environmental justice concerns and challenge the hierarchy or perspectives and worldviews regarding accepted notions of subalternity. These texts construct a triptych suggesting an embedded ecotheology of the material and the spiritual, thereby sensitising the reader to the endangered waterscapes of the Anthropocene and also to the promise of the Symbiocene through an awareness of the fluid relational field that we share with the greater-than-human world
Anthropocene · Art · Environmental ethics · Ethnology · Geography · Indian subcontinent · Literature · Narrative · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Philosophy · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Geology · Oceanography
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |