The Bangladesh Environmental Humanities Reader

List of Tables and Figures
Foreword by Scott Slovic
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Samina Luthfa, Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan, and Munasir Kamal

Part I: Industrialization, Urbanization, and Space
Part Ia: Environment and New Politics of Space
Chapter 1: Growth and Disaster: A Tale of Environmental Disaster in the Time of High Growth in Bangladesh
Anu Muhammad
Chapter 2: Co-management Approach for Nature/Forest Conservation, Corporate Interests, and the Nishorgo Support Project in Bangladesh
Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan
Chapter 3: Resisting a Coal Mine in Bangladesh and Immigrants in the United Kingdom: The New Agent/Actors in Transnational Environmental Politics
Samina Luthfa
Chapter 4: Pursuing Justice for All: Eviction and Environmental Injustice in Dhaka
Lutfun Nahar Lata
Chapter 5: Rohingya Influx: Impacts on Environment and Local Host Communities in Bangladesh
Mrittika Kamal
Part Ib: Hazardous Work Environment
Chapter 6: Iron Eaters: A Story of Scrapped Men
Fahmidul Haq
Chapter 7: Work Environment and Its Effect on Job Satisfaction in the Ready-Made Garments Industry in Bangladesh
Zahid ul Arefin Choudhury
Chapter 8: Death of a Thousand Dreams: A Photo Essay on the Rana Plaza Collapse and the Aftermath
Taslima Akhter

Part II: Water, Environment, and Victimhood
Chapter 9: Chokoria Sundarbans: A Forest without Trees
Philip Gain
Chapter 10: Critically Understanding Samta: A Tale of an Arsenic Affected Village
Fatema-Tuj-Juhra and Rubiat Afrose Raka
Chapter 11: Kaptai Dam Bor-Porong: The Human Cost of Dam and Development-An Account of Forced Migration
Monzima Haque
Chapter 12: Historicizing Kaptai Dam, Collective Trauma, and Political Awakening in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
Munasir Kamal and Mesbah Kamal

Part III: Ecocriticism and Creative Space for Environmental Justice
Chapter 13: Ecocentrism and Bauls: Lalon and Radharaman's Meditative Activism
Golam Rabbani
Chapter 14: Rabindranath Tagore and Environmental Justice
Fakrul Alam
Chapter 15: Marginalization of Minorities and the Environment: Bibhutibhushan Bandapadhyay's Pather Panchali and Aryanak
Shehreen Ataur Khan
Chapter 16: Reclaiming Voice: In Search of Space and Agency in Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay's Hansuli Banker Upakatha
Sabrina Binte Masud
Chapter 17: Riverine Communities: A Study of Adwaita Mallabarman's Titas Ekti Nadir Naam and Manik Bandopadhyay's Padma Nadir Majhi
Qazi Arka Rahman and Faria Alam
Chapter 18: Unequal Justice: Ethnicity and Class in Mahasweta Devi's Aranyer Adhikar and Selim Al Deen's Bonopangshul
Soumya Sarker

Part IV: Biodiversity, Ecosystem, and Politics of Sustainability
Chapter 19: Plant Biodiversity Management for Nutritional Food Security in Bangladesh
Lutfur Rahman
Chapter 20: The UN Climate Change Conferences: An Investigative Study of the Shortcomings
Md. Rezwanul Haque Masud

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