Smoking Is Injurious to Pulp

D’souza, Nikitha; Ashwini, P; Bhagat, Pooja; Priya, N S

doi:10.26463/rjms.11_4_11

Cited by 1 publication

(1 citation statement)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…59 Other strategies, such as building houses on raised platforms and cultivating flood-tolerant crops, were additionally used. 60 The flood water was effectively used for growing food and crops while communities coped with seasonal hydraulic volatility, although agriculture was a secondary occupation to artisan and textile-based production. 61 Despite the colonial authorities' best efforts to 'discipline' the river through canals and higher, more comprehensive embankment infrastructureaccompanied by laws, policies, and governance mechanismsthe floods continued.…”

Section: Damodar's Hydro-social Dynamics: Colonial Legacies Legislati...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Law, Colonial-Capitalist Floods, and the Production of Injustices in Eastern India: Insights for Climate Adaptation

Ohdedar

2024

TEL

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Floods are not merely ‘natural’ disasters; rather, they emerge as socio-natural phenomena shaped by political, social, and economic processes. Law plays a pivotal role in producing and sustaining these processes and contributes to the creation of unjust environments. Drawing on political ecology and environmental history, this article analyzes the role of law and its interactions with colonialism and capitalism in the Damodar river valley in Eastern India. The Damodar river valley is an intensely engineered and hazardous region, a site of multiple interventions and developmental and ecological experiments for over a century. Colonial and post-colonial legacies have left a lasting imprint on legal, policy, and institutional frameworks, establishing a path-dependent trajectory for addressing future climate change adaptation challenges. While focusing on a specific case study, the article's approach and findings have broader significance, especially in the context of climate adaptation. The central argument underscores the need to understand the political and legal dimensions of flooding, and reinforces the need for a shift beyond incremental adjustments that do not tackle the underlying structures that produce the injustices associated with floods. It highlights the importance of ‘transformative adaptation’ approaches that address the root causes of climate-related disasters, such as restructuring power relations between actors, reconfiguring governance structures, and scrutinizing ideologies that mediate how water is used and distributed.

show abstract

Section: Damodar's Hydro-social Dynamics: Colonial Legacies Legislati...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Law, Colonial-Capitalist Floods, and the Production of Injustices in Eastern India: Insights for Climate Adaptation

Ohdedar

2024

TEL

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Smoking Is Injurious to Pulp

Cited by 1 publication

References 0 publications

Law, Colonial-Capitalist Floods, and the Production of Injustices in Eastern India: Insights for Climate Adaptation

Law, Colonial-Capitalist Floods, and the Production of Injustices in Eastern India: Insights for Climate Adaptation

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About