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Entangled Ecologies as Metaphors of State Design

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Authors:
  1. Mathew A. Varghese

    1. School of International Relations and Politics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India

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  • Ethnographically focused on regions in Kerala, but this leads to non-ethnographic extrapolation of ideas
  • Draws on the ways of ethologists, zoogeographers and ecologists to deal with this interagentivity
  • Examines the material effects in their relationalities, manifest in configurations of ecologies

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: Ecologies in the Making—A Methodological Journey

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    Pages 1-20

  3. Of Sovereign Designs

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    Pages 21-36

  4. Voices from the Wetlands and Paddy Fields

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    Pages 37-56

  5. Prolegomenon to the Spectacles in the Making

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    Pages 57-83

  6. Invasives and Invadability in Perspective

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    Pages 85-102

  7. Riparian Ecologies from the Ghats to the Plains

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    Pages 103-117

  8. River Stories from Periyar

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    Pages 119-163

  9. The ‘Wild’ Among ‘Us’ or the Non-human Other

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    Pages 165-211

  10. Concluding Chapter: Unravelling Entanglements in Ecology

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    Pages 213-223

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 225-250
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About this book

This book takes a unique approach to the ethnographic and analytical explorations of ecologies in the making. The core theme of the work will be the emerging anthropocene contexts that simultaneously bring unprecedented human interactions with the non-human as well as the emergence of hybrid ecologies. There will be dependence on existing literature, own ethnographic work that has already went into this, the closer introspection of immediate geographies as well as the pertinent debates. There has been a reconfiguration of meaning and nature of spaces in the context of social relations produced by neo-liberal globalization. States as they have been are transforming and are influenced by policies made beyond borders. This work is marked out by careful enquiry on ecologies in the  making with the backdrop of distinct regional developmentalist trajectories as well as specific ethnography from Kerala, South-West India.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of International Relations and Politics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India

    Mathew A. Varghese

About the author

Mathew A Varghese is Assistant Professor at the School of International Relations and Politics (SIRP) at the Mahatma Gandhi University in Kerala, India. Varghese’s research interests are in ecological relationships, animal-human interactions and urban processes. Previously a fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Varghese is affiliated as a researcher with Urban Enclaving Futures, Bergen and the Algorithmic Governance Research Network, Oslo. He is also the Hon. Director of the Centre for Urban Studies (CUS) at the M G University.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Entangled Ecologies as Metaphors of State Design

  • Authors: Mathew A. Varghese

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46518-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-46517-8Published: 01 December 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-46520-8Due: 01 January 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-46518-5Published: 30 November 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 250

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Human Geography, Geography, general, Development Studies, Sustainable Development

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