Degrowth Remains a Slogan
Though illuminating key debates, Jason Hickel’s recent case for degrowth falls short of its global objective – with not enough to offer regions like South Asia.
The Environmental Afterlives of Sri Lanka’s Civil War
How Sri Lanka’s decades-long civil war lives on — in the soil, on the land, and within human and non-human animals.
Beware the Gujarat Model in India’s Covid-19 Recovery
Modi’s Gujarat reconstruction model, combining muscular Hindu nationalism with hi-tech modernity and neoliberal privatized development, threatens India’s COVID recovery.
Pakistan’s First Climate Prisoners: Baba Jan & Affectees of the Attabad Disaster
Baba Jan and his comrades, Pakistan’s first climate prisoners, have led the charge for climate justice, ecological protection, and self-determination for over a decade.
The Discolouration of “Green Growth” in Pakistan
As “Green Growth” gains popularity among a range of political actors, a critique of the agenda’s growing currency in Pakistan and its worrying alliance with capitalist “development”.
Green, Green Rocky Road: The Perils of Greenwashing Pakistan
By rendering it a “technical problem”, Pakistan’s “greening” initiatives only exacerbate the country’s environmental crisis.
COVID-19 and Disaster Capitalism in India
India’s COVID-19 pandemic has become an opportunity for the BJP government to unleash privatization, implement neoliberal policies, and crush dissent.
Pollution and Patriarchy in Tribal India
In tribal India, violence against the environment and women are connected and part of the country’s dispossession-driven capitalism.
There are No Win-Win Solutions
Indian conglomerates rushing to invest in renewable energy obscure dirtier practices of ecological damage and labour injustice.
Orientalizing Environmentalism: Green Movements in India
Millenial-led environmental movements in India fall prey to imitating their Western counterparts. If environmentalism is to have any success in the country, we need a more vernacular environmentalism.
Pandemics and Hunger: Lessons from the 1918 Pandemic in India
It wasn’t the influenza virus alone, but the agricultural exploitation imposed by colonialism which devastated India in 1918.
No Harm Here is Still Harm There: The Green New Deal and the Global South (II)
A GND which fails to challenge the hegemony of growth-led development perpetuates the exploitation of the Global South and will be unable to prevent global ecological social collapse.