Disaster cosmologies in comparative perspective
Islam, climate change and the 2010 floods in Pakistan's Southern Punjab
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4300916 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ali Nobil Ahmad, Ali Ahmad (0000-0003-0042-552X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 311-330 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Historical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-1909 • E-ISSN: 1467-6443 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/johs.12235 |
| OpenAlex | W2955621669 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 25 |
As humanity enters a new era of climate-induced unpredictability, research into the role of religion in shaping perceptions of, and responses to disaster will become increasingly important. This is particularly true of South Asia, which contains dense populations certain to be adversely affected by climate change. This contribution explores the way religion shapes and mediates responses to disaster in Pakistan. Where previous work in this field has focused on extremists and militants, mine considers currents of lived Islam that take explicit stances on questions of natural resource development. Drawing upon extensive primary data, I identify two distinct disaster cosmologies permeating state and society. First, I consider the official Islam of experts and policymakers, whose approach to development is derived from, but arguably surpasses the modernism of British and American colonial and Cold War paradigms in its dogmatic, faith-based belief in the imperative of mastering and exploiting nature. The second is an altogether contrasting formation embedded in a political protest movement representing a marginalized constituency, the Siraiki speaking population of Southern Punjab, which mobilized flood affectees in the aftermath of the 2010 floods around issues of social and environmental justice
Climate change · Development economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Faith · Geography · Islam · Natural disaster · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Religion, Society, and Development · Ecology · Law
Dangerously exposed
The Anthropocene
Natural hazards, local, national, global
What Is Islam?
Formations of the Secular
Religion and climate change
Islamic Attitudes to Disasters in the Middle Ages
Theory versus practice
Religions, natural hazards, and disasters
Social Construction of Hydropolitics
Population, Resources, and the Ideology of Science
Climatic Disasters and Radical Politics in Southern Pakistan
The Professionalization of Political Culture
Concrete 'progress
Siraiki
Staging Climate Security
Will non-humans be saved? An argument in ecotheology
The anthropology of ontology (religious science)
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |