Dear friends
Very welcome!
EARTH UNBOUND: CLIMATE CHANGE IN TIDAL WORLDS OF INDIA/BANGLADESH
This conversation will focus on climate change, hazard management and activism in the Sundarbans, a
UNESco world
heritage listed biosphere reserve and Ramsar wetland in India and Bangladesh. This
transboundary environmental commons and mangrove ecosystem is threatened by sea level rise, floods as well as tropical cyclones.
With:
Sanjana Dutt, Department of Geography, University of Kolkata, India
Dr Anwesha Haldar, Department of Geography, East Calcutta Girls' College, University of
Kolkata, India
Dr Jenia Mukherjee, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of
Technology Kharagpur,
Prof. Lakshminarayan Satpati,
Department of Geography, University of Kolkata, India
Assoc Prof Aditya Ghosh, Jindal Global University,
India
Momtaj Khalil, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia/Khulna University, Bangladesh
Prof Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt is at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National
University, Australia
Date: Thursday, 24th June, 2021
Time: 1.45pm-3.00pm (Melbourne)/9.15am (Kolkata, India)
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Biographies
Sanjana Dutt has been working on well-being and is associated with various projects in Kolkata. She has been participating in Earth Unbound dialogues since the beginning of the year and has contributed to expanding the reach beyond
the Global North.
Dr Anwesha Haldar is at the Department of Geography, East Calcutta Girls' College, West Bengal State University.
https://sites.google.com/view/geographyecgc/bio-data. Her recent research focuses on soil salinity in the Sundarbans.
Dr Jenia Mukherjee is at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. Her research interest spans across political ecology and environmental humanities. She was awarded the Carson
Writing Fellowship (2018-19) for completing her book Blue Infrastructures: Natural History, Political Ecology and Urban Development in Kolkata (Singapore: Springer Nature, 2020).
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-15-3951-0 (available in Deakin Library)
Prof. Lakshminarayan Satpati
is at the Department of Geography, University of Kolkata. His
primary interests revolve around
climate,
water resources,
geoforms,
population,
environment and
development. He has
been closely monitoring climate change in
the Kolkata-Sundarbans area and
has supervised more than 20 scholars.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351837860_Extreme_climatic_events
Dr Aditya Ghosh is an Associate Professor at the Jindal School of Art and Architecture
https://jgu.edu.in/jsaa/node/202h. His latest book is “Sustainability conflicts in Coastal India: Hazards, changing climate and development discourse in Indian Sundarbans,” (2018), Springer ISBN: 978-331963891.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-63892-8. The book engages with critical questions over disaster and risk reduction, sociocultural impacts of climate change, resilience
and adaptation and environmental justice.
Momtaj Khalil has just submitted her doctoral thesis (University of Technology, Sydney). Her research focuses on
place-based adaptation by women in a post-cyclone coastal settlement of Bangladesh.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2021.100644
Prof Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt is at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
https://crawford.anu.edu.au/people/academic/kuntala-lahiri-dutt. Her
research focuses on community livelihoods and natural resource management. Her documentary film Women at the Water’s Edge focuses on the challenges of living with climate change in the Sundarbans
Kind Regards
Michele Lobo (with Eve Mayes and Laura Bedford)
Dr Michele Lobo
Lecturer, Human Geography
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Education
Deakin University, 221 Burwood Hwy, Victoria 3125
AUSTRALIA
Editor, Social & Cultural Geography
Editor, Book Reviews/Critical Dialogues,
Postcolonial Studies
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