| Title | Quilting the ‘Brown Hole’ in Environmental History |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | Muddy Materialities of Bengal |
| Contributor | Jenia Mukherjee (author) |
| Raktima Ghosh (author) | |
| Pritwinath Ghosh (author) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.3197/63831593227779.ch05 |
| Landing page | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/93616 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en |
| Publisher | The White Horse Press |
| Published on | 2024-03-15 |
| Page range | pp. 121–145 |
| Print length | 25 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
| Media | 10 illustrations |
Jenia Mukherjee is an Associate Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Her research spans across environmental history, political ecology, and transdisciplinary waters. She received the Australian Leadership Awards Fellowship in 2010 and 2015 for her research on river islands of the Lower Ganga Basin. She is investigating several large-scale global partnership projects funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada), European Union, Swissnex, Swiss National Science Federation, and DAAD (Germany), focusing on deltaic vulnerabilities and social resilience.
Raktima Ghosh is a doctoral student in social ecological research at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Her research interests span across political ecology, coastal studies and environmental governance in contexts of dried fish and small-scale fisheries. As a part of the Dried Fish Matters (DFM) global partnership project, her research follows ethnographic, visual and participatory approaches to study dried fish social economy in deltaic West Bengal, India. Broadly, her doctoral work explores the ways in which the social economy in dried fish is shaped by relationships and values, emerging within socio-spatial interactions along the value chain.
Pritwinath Ghosh is a Research Fellow at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He was engaged in an IUCN-funded project which mapped and documented ecosystem services in the chars (river islands) of Bengal. His Ph.D. research focuses on lives, livelihoods, and worldviews of choruas inhabiting the volatile river islands dotting the upper stretch of the Lower Ganga Basin. He is using a wide range of archives and ethnographic methods to document adaptive practices prevalent in chars.