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Authors Information
SequenceTypeName TitleFirst NameLast NameDepartmentInstitute / Affiliation
1 Author Ms. Madhurima Chatterjee of anthropology University of Delhi
Abstract Information
TrackID
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IUAES23_ABS_V5662
Abstract Theme
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PT156 - Climate Change: Resilience and Resistance
Abstract Title
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Conceptualizing “Risk societies” in real sense of the term and g/local discourses of Climate governance in coastal South Asia: case studies from west Bengal, India
Short Abstract
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Pandemics and climate change are creating doubling impacts on the lives of coastal people in South Asia where Anthropologists advocating as “patron”, combining theory and praxis together to deal with certain Socio-political issues, this article will reflect on the active participation and challenges for being an Anthropologists at the time of pandemics and climate change across the West Bengal coast, specifically, South 24 Paraganas, India.
Long Abstract
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It is evident that, from the beginning of the era of industrialization, human greed and need took over all the aspects of humanities from production to consumption, social upliftment, choices of livelihood and social roles or maintenance of social status which in turn contributed to the emergence of global climate crisis.

there are few aspects of climate crisis which would be discussed in the present article, which are, 1) why climate crisis emerged? 2) what are the impacts it has onhumanities?3) how humanities coping with that? and what could be global solutions to maintain sustainability for future generations?

Many of the academic scholarships from 19th century have been discussing and conceptualizing the impact climate change is having on the earth, such as, geologists, engineers, chemists etc, but unfortunately, they left out the people having those impacts in their reports as subheads of “Anthropogenic activities which lead to climate change”, here comes the discourse shift from human impacts on earth to “climate change is not same for all ,it has differential impacts over humanities ,which is based on living space, occupation ,class and status, etc.”, most of the vulnerable and poor people living across the climate impacted zones are having the wrath impacts of climate change, they are losing their socio-cultural identities ,becoming Homeless, few of them have lost their maternal homes permanently ,so they are relocating their temporary shelter abruptly, in search of livelihood security and social stability.

This work is a part of my doctoral research field work, where I have experienced a rare phenomenon of concurrent erosion events and periods of high tides. which are totally destroying communities after communities, and made the lives of the inhabitants venerable forever. I have used community participation as a technique to record their narratives through semi structured interview method.

Abstract Keywords
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climate justice, climate change, climate governance, g/local discourses, "risk societies"