The Environmental Afterlives of Sri Lanka’s Civil War
How Sri Lanka’s decades-long civil war lives on — in the soil, on the land, and within human and non-human animals.
Pakistan’s First Climate Prisoners: Baba Jan & Affectees of the Attabad Disaster
Baba Jan and his comrades, Pakistan’s first climate prisoners, have led the charge for climate justice, ecological protection, and self-determination for over a decade.
The Discolouration of “Green Growth” in Pakistan
As “Green Growth” gains popularity among a range of political actors, a critique of the agenda’s growing currency in Pakistan and its worrying alliance with capitalist “development”.
Green, Green Rocky Road: The Perils of Greenwashing Pakistan
By rendering it a “technical problem”, Pakistan’s “greening” initiatives only exacerbate the country’s environmental crisis.
Pollution and Patriarchy in Tribal India
In tribal India, violence against the environment and women are connected and part of the country’s dispossession-driven capitalism.
There are No Win-Win Solutions
Indian conglomerates rushing to invest in renewable energy obscure dirtier practices of ecological damage and labour injustice.
Orientalizing Environmentalism: Green Movements in India
Millenial-led environmental movements in India fall prey to imitating their Western counterparts. If environmentalism is to have any success in the country, we need a more vernacular environmentalism.
No Harm Here is Still Harm There: The Green New Deal and the Global South (II)
A GND which fails to challenge the hegemony of growth-led development perpetuates the exploitation of the Global South and will be unable to prevent global ecological social collapse.
No Harm Here is Still Harm There: The Green New Deal and the Global South (I)
Without accounting for globalized production, a Green New Deal in the Global North will merely spur the imperialist quest for cheaper resources and labour to satisfy “eco-friendly” consumption.
Sri Lanka’s Tamils Trapped Between War and Waste
Sri Lanka's environmental progress depends on its treatment of its minority Tamils, who have suffered for decades under majoritarian rule
COVID-19 Comes to Polluted Lahore
Lahore’s terrible air quality has prepared the ground for the novel coronavirus to do unspeakable amounts of harm. In coming out of this crisis, we must insist that the city’s deadly air pollution be cleaned up.