Towards Dalit Ecologies

IF 3.1 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environment and Society-Advances in Research Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI:10.3167/ares.2022.130107

Indulata Prasad

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Abstract

The caste system has implications for the environmental experiences of Dalits (formerly “untouchables”). Dalits are disproportionately impacted by natural disasters and climate change because of their high dependence on natural resources and manual labor, including agriculture. Dalit viewpoints and ecological expertise nevertheless remain missing from the environmental literature and mainstream activism. Aligning with Black ecologies as a challenge to eco-racism, I use the term “Dalit ecologies” to conceptualize Dalit articulations with their environment and experiences of eco-casteism involving inequities such as their exclusions from natural resources and high vulnerability to pollution and waste. My analysis of scholarly literature finds that nature is caste-ized through the ideology of Hindu Brahminism that animates mainstream environmental activism in India. Dalit subjectivities and agency nevertheless remain evident in their literary and oral narratives and ongoing struggles for access to land, water, and other environmental resources.

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走向达利特生态

种姓制度对贱民（以前的“贱民”）的环境体验有影响。达利特人因高度依赖自然资源和包括农业在内的体力劳动而受到自然灾害和气候变化的不成比例的影响。然而，环境文学和主流激进主义仍然缺少达利特人的观点和生态专业知识。与黑人生态一致，认为这是对生态种族主义的挑战，我用“达利特生态”一词来概念化达利特人对他们的环境和生态种姓制度的理解，包括他们被排除在自然资源之外以及极易受到污染和浪费。我对学术文献的分析发现，通过印度教婆罗门主义的意识形态，自然是种姓化的，这种意识形态激发了印度主流的环境行动主义。然而，达利特人的主观能动性在他们的文学和口头叙事以及为获得土地、水和其他环境资源而进行的持续斗争中仍然很明显。

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Environment and Society-Advances in Research ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

CiteScore

2.30

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0.00%

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审稿时长

16 weeks

期刊介绍： Environment and Society: Advances in Research is an annual review journal, publishing articles that have been commissioned in response to specific published calls.The field of research on environment and society is growing rapidly and becoming of ever-greater importance not only in academia but also in policy circles and for the public at large. This growth reflects the urgency of debate and the pace and scale of change with respect to the water crisis, deforestation, biodiversity loss, the looming energy crisis, nascent resource wars, environmental refugees, climate change, and environmental justice, which are just some of the many compelling challenges facing society today and in the future. It also reflects the richness and insights of scholarship exploring diverse cultural forms, social phenomena, and political-economic formations in which society and nature are intricately intertwined, if not indistinguishable. As a forum to address these issues, we are delighted to present an important peer-reviewed annual: Environment and Society: Advances in Research. Through this journal we hope to stimulate advanced research and action on these and other critical issues and encourage international communication and exchange among all relevant disciplines. Environment and Society publishes critical reviews of the latest research literature on environmental studies, including subjects of theoretical, methodological, substantive, and applied significance. Articles also survey the literature regionally and thematically and reflect the work of anthropologists, geographers, environmental scientists, and human ecologists from all parts of the world in order to internationalize the conversations within environmental anthropology, environmental geography, and other environmentally oriented social sciences. The publication will appeal to academic, research, and policy-making audiences alike.