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Authors:Rita Brara Pages: 307 - 323 Abstract: Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 307-323, October 2021. ‘[T]here is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations.’(Michel Foucault 1977: 27) Citation: Contributions to Indian Sociology PubDate: 2022-03-03T09:21:44Z DOI: 10.1177/00699667211073723 Issue No:Vol. 55, No. 3 (2022)
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Authors:Dipesh Chakrabarty Pages: 324 - 348 Abstract: Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 324-348, October 2021. By drawing on the phenomena of anthropogenic climate change and the pandemic as two examples of the geologists’ idea of the Anthropocene, this article seeks to explain how the Anthropocene leads to a plurality of overlapping but conflicting temporalities for humans. This problem of time makes it difficult to imagine any globally concerted effort to deal with the Anthropocene or climate change as such. Citation: Contributions to Indian Sociology PubDate: 2022-03-03T09:21:42Z DOI: 10.1177/00699667211065081 Issue No:Vol. 55, No. 3 (2022)
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Authors:Nitin Desai Pages: 349 - 372 Abstract: Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 349-372, October 2021. The study of human history suggests that the sources of the energy used to sustain production and consumption are the defining determinants of the productive structure, and by implication of the social structure. This article assesses the economic and sociopolitical changes that one can expect because of the major changes in energy sources required to tackle the threat of global warming. It spells out what we know at present about the risks of climate change arising from global warming, how they are being addressed at present and how the measures that are contemplated at present to cope with the threat of climate change will transform the global energy economy and why this makes possible a substantially more decentralised economy. But it also qualifies this vision and deals with the hurdles that will be faced in the structural transition. Citation: Contributions to Indian Sociology PubDate: 2022-03-03T09:21:41Z DOI: 10.1177/00699667211030394 Issue No:Vol. 55, No. 3 (2022)
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Authors:Awadhendra Sharan Pages: 373 - 391 Abstract: Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 373-391, October 2021. Climate change and the pandemic, each in its own way, has powerfully drawn our attention to the imbrication of human lives with non-humans. In this article, I attempt to address these linkages through a focus on energy use and environment in Indian cities, especially in domestic settings. The introduction section of the article presents its background. The second section discusses weather and the colonial science of climatology in thinking about ventilation and thermal comfort, and ends with an account of air conditioning in Indian cities. The third section offers a history of efforts at mitigating indoor air pollution through a transition in energy use from biomass to the use of gas and electricity. In conclusion, I draw attention to the translation that is involved in thinking about energy, urbanism and climate change historically and in the contemporary period. Citation: Contributions to Indian Sociology PubDate: 2022-03-03T09:21:49Z DOI: 10.1177/00699667211057880 Issue No:Vol. 55, No. 3 (2022)
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Authors:Aase J. Kvanneid Pages: 392 - 415 Abstract: Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 392-415, October 2021. The lower Shivalik Hills of North India is a region that is experiencing rapid socio-environmental challenges from interrelated changes in climate, market and society. While decades of governmental development efforts in the rural region have brought increased access to education, sanitation and improved infrastructure in the lower Shivalik Hills, the region is still characterised by poverty, illiteracy, a severely eschewed sex ratio and increased male out-migration to the larger cities. The article draws on empirical cases intended to provide an insight into gendered consequences of the contemporary rural coping strategies.These cases are drawn from anthropological fieldwork conducted in 2013.1 Although the joint households of the villages in the rural Shivalik Hills might seem to be resilient towards climate and market changes as men migrate for work, an overt focus on migration as a practice overlooks gender equality and social mobility, especially for young women, who are left behind to shoulder an extra burden. Citation: Contributions to Indian Sociology PubDate: 2022-03-03T09:21:47Z DOI: 10.1177/00699667211059723 Issue No:Vol. 55, No. 3 (2022)
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Authors:Olivia Calleja Pages: 416 - 437 Abstract: Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 416-437, October 2021. This article examines Delhi’s neoliberal regime of solid waste management and the evolving and hybrid trajectory of appropriation that it gives rise to. Working with a commons/enclosure framework, I analyse how the privatisation of waste management unfolds amidst complex waste work community relations and dense labour politics to create contingent and unanticipated scenarios that modify the enclosure of waste. Specifically, I observe that circuits of exchange have developed in the shadow of privatised waste infrastructure and allow materials of value to escape into the informal recycling economy, despite modernisation blueprints planning for their capture by capitalist agents. This messy configuration urges us to nuance our comprehension of accumulation by dispossession in the context of Indian cities. In this article, I argue that variegated practices of commoning and enclosing underlie these everyday arrangements and the compromises on which they rest. This approach allows us to consider how (neo-) customary rights over the resources of waste and labour networks reconfigure under neoliberal regimes to condition the enclosing of waste commons. Finally, I suggest that situated histories and caste politics emerge as central features to understand the capitalist transformation of waste systems. Citation: Contributions to Indian Sociology PubDate: 2022-03-03T09:21:37Z DOI: 10.1177/00699667211059715 Issue No:Vol. 55, No. 3 (2022)
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Authors:Ritwick Dutta Pages: 438 - 458 Abstract: Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 438-458, October 2021. Climate change today is a reality facing every part of the world and India is no exception. Judicial institutions—courts and tribunals—have a crucial role in adjudicating on climate concerns as the society tries on the one hand to reduce emissions, build resilience against a rapidly warming world and erratic weather patterns, and adapt to the changing climate. Impacts of climate change include melting glaciers, rising sea levels, species decline and extinctions, as well as, at the individual level and social planes—increasing conflicts, violent behaviour and migration among other issues. Unfortunately, climate change is yet to figure prominently in judicial decisions. India’s environmental jurisprudence is still structured around principles such as ‘polluter pays’, ‘sustainable development’ and the ‘public trust doctrine’ which double up as ‘fictions’ and ‘myths’ and have limited applicability so far as climate change–related issues are concerned. Analysis of judicial decisions where there is discussion on climate change shows that there is lack of appreciation about the seriousness, enormity and the urgency to deal with the climate crisis by both members of the judiciary as well as lawyers. The failure to address climate change–related issues in a comprehensive manner represents a serious shortcoming in India’s judiciary which needs urgent attention. Citation: Contributions to Indian Sociology PubDate: 2022-03-03T09:21:47Z DOI: 10.1177/00699667221075518 Issue No:Vol. 55, No. 3 (2022)
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Authors:Chandana Anusha Pages: 459 - 462 Abstract: Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 459-462, October 2021. Lesley Green (with a foreword by Isabelle Stengers). 2020. Rock Water Life: Ecology and Humanities for a Decolonial South Africa. Durham and London: Duke University Press. xxv + 296 pp. Maps, notes, figures, illustrations, bibliography, index. $27.95 (eBook). Citation: Contributions to Indian Sociology PubDate: 2022-03-03T09:21:45Z DOI: 10.1177/00699667221078396 Issue No:Vol. 55, No. 3 (2022)
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Authors:Vasundhara Bhojvaid Pages: 462 - 464 Abstract: Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 462-464, October 2021. Hannah Knox. 2020. Thinking Like a Climate: Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change. Durham: Duke University Press. xv + 314 pp. Notes, figures, references, index. $27.95 (eBook) Citation: Contributions to Indian Sociology PubDate: 2022-03-03T09:21:39Z DOI: 10.1177/00699667211063837 Issue No:Vol. 55, No. 3 (2022)
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Authors:Vasudha Chhotray Pages: 465 - 468 Abstract: Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 465-468, October 2021. Max Liboiron. 2021. Pollution is Colonialism. Durham: Duke University Press. xiv + 197 pp. Figures, bibliography, index. $24.95 (eBook) Citation: Contributions to Indian Sociology PubDate: 2022-03-03T09:21:40Z DOI: 10.1177/00699667211068450 Issue No:Vol. 55, No. 3 (2022)
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Authors:Gideon Thomas Mathson Pages: 468 - 470 Abstract: Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 468-470, October 2021. Aase J. Kvanneid. 2021. Perceptions of Climate Change from North India: An Ethnographic Account. Oxford: Routledge. 182 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, index. £29.59 (eBook) Citation: Contributions to Indian Sociology PubDate: 2022-03-03T09:21:46Z DOI: 10.1177/00699667211063825 Issue No:Vol. 55, No. 3 (2022)
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Authors:Shweta Rani Pages: 470 - 473 Abstract: Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 470-473, October 2021. Manisha Rao, ed. 2021. Reframing the Environment: Resources, Risk and Resistance in Neoliberal India. Oxford: Routledge. xx + 220 pp. References, index. ₹995 (hardback) Citation: Contributions to Indian Sociology PubDate: 2022-03-03T09:21:39Z DOI: 10.1177/00699667211063838 Issue No:Vol. 55, No. 3 (2022)
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Authors:Amit Kumar Sharma Pages: 473 - 475 Abstract: Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 473-475, October 2021. John Stratton Hawley. 2020. Krishna’s Playground: Vrindavan in the 21st Century. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. xx + 361 pp. Maps, figures, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. ₹750.75 (eBook) Citation: Contributions to Indian Sociology PubDate: 2022-03-03T09:21:48Z DOI: 10.1177/00699667211068443 Issue No:Vol. 55, No. 3 (2022)
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Authors:Upasna Sharma Pages: 475 - 479 Abstract: Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 475-479, October 2021. Sunita Narain, Shazneen Cyrus Gazdar, Avantika Goswami, and Tarun Gopalakrishnan (edited by Souparno Banerjee). 2021. Climate Change: Science and Politics. New Delhi: Centre for Science and Environment. x + 198 pp. Figures, illustrations, maps, notes, references, tables. ₹750 (paperback) Citation: Contributions to Indian Sociology PubDate: 2022-03-03T09:21:48Z DOI: 10.1177/00699667211066886 Issue No:Vol. 55, No. 3 (2022)
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