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Ten Theses on Climate Justice and Migration: Reading Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island from a Christian Social-Ethics Perspective | Ghosh in Munich
Reflections on Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island by Markus Vogt.
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Time After the Hero—Or, in Proposing the Age of the Anthropoiescene | Ghosh in Munich
The Age of the Anthropoiescene is a time of sympoietic tanglings with the human and more-than-human ghosts of deep time.
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The Mangrove Doesn’t Forget | Ghosh in Munich
A woman returns to her ancestral home, where mangroves speak memory, loss, and land history long buried.
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How to Reimagine Our Doomed Futures Through Ursula K. Le Guin’s Lens: A Case Study in the Argentinian Wetlands | Ghosh in Munich
Vera Krause’s “How to Reimagine Our Doomed Futures Through Ursula K. Le Guin’s Lens: A Case Study in the Argentinian Wetlands” is a sympathetic account of a so-called capybara “invasion” in contemporary Buenos Aires, taking its cue from the anarchist fantasy of Ursula K. Le Guin to show the difference between invading and reclaiming one’s space. It was one of the two honorable mentions in the reflective essay category of the RCC environmental writing competition “Tell the Untold!”
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A Few Hazy Anthropocenes | Ghosh in Munich
Tathagat Bhatia’s “A Few Hazy Anthropocenes” is a skilfully controlled reflection on haze as both a form of air pollution and a metaphor for the uncertainty of our times. It was one of the two honorable mentions in the nonfiction category of the RCC environmental writing competition “Tell the Untold!”
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Using Climate Fiction for Community Engagement: The Role of Narratives and Storytelling | Ghosh in Munich
Reflections on Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island by Julia Ludewig.
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On Opium and Imperialism: The Flag Under Which the Empire Sails May No Longer Be the Union Jack | Ghosh in Munich
Reflections on Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island by Nakul Heroor.
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The Story of Geology | Ghosh in Munich
Sonji Shah’s “The Story of Geology” is a clever take on the “lithic imaginary” in Bjornerud, Jemisin, and Macfarlane, showing how underground worlds can excite new thoughts on what it means to belong to the earth. It was one of the two honorable mentions in the reflective essay category of the RCC environmental writing competition “Tell the Untold!”
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What Cannot Be Unearthed | Ghosh in Munich
Wan Yin Kim Fung’s “What Cannot Be Unearthed” is a sensitively told account that quite literally gives pause to the toxic fallout of nineteenth- and twentieth-century copper mining in eastern Japan. It was one of the two honorable mentions in the nonfiction category of the RCC environmental writing competition “Tell the Untold!”