Ecological Entanglements: Affect, Embodiment and Ethics of Care is a contributory volume that calls for new ways to apprehend the ecological crisis by formulating a framework that integrates social, material, and cultural dimensions of ecology. The essays in the volume argue that ecology is thoroughly entangled with affective, communicative and embodied practices that provide a sense of how one can not only understand, but also care for the other.

Ambika Aiyadurai is Assistant Professor (Anthropology), Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar.

Arka Chattopadhyay is Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar.

Nishaant Choksi is Assistant Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar.

Foreword by Sundar Sarukkai
Acknowledgements & Publisher´s Acknowledgements
Introduction
Ambika Aiyadurai, Arka Chattopadhyay & Nishaant Choksi

ECOLOGIES OF CARE

1. Ethos, Pathos, Logos: Affective and Emotive Ethnographies of Human–Macaque Lifeworlds/Ishika Ramakrishna, Ajith Kumar, Maan Barua & Anindya Sinha
2. How to Become with a Bird: Lessons from Salim Ali’s Common Birds/Krishnanunni Hari
3. Feeling the Moss: Exploring Ecological Sensitivity through ‘Enchanted’ Encounters/Deborah Dutta
4. Reading the Elephant: Towards Affectual Conceptualisations of the Wild Asian Elephant/Sayan Banerjee & Anindya Sinha
5. Blindness and Canine Heroicisation: Interdependence in Kuusisto’s Have Dog, Will Travel/Krishna Kumar S.
6. Human and Animal: ‘Destitution’ and ‘Divinisation’ in the Discourse and Practice of Caste/Ankit Kawade

AFFECTIVE EXPRESSIONS

1. Expressiveness and Affect: Everyday Poetics in Natural Landscapes/Nathan Badenoch & Toshiki Osada
2. Songs of Script: Embodied Affect and Indigenous Language Literacy in Eastern India/Nishaant Choksi
3. Winding Spools and Speaking Stones: How to Play Beckett’s Tape Recorder and Listen to Handke’s Stone Woman in Krapp’s Last Tape and Till Day You Do Part, or A Question of Light?/Asijit Dutta
4. Embodying the Birangona: Negotiating History and Memory of the Bangladesh Liberation War, 1971/ Antara Ghatak

EMBODIED SPACES

1. Becoming Thylacine: Embodiment, Ecology and Materialism in Julia Leigh’s The Hunter/Mark Byron
2. Walking on a Tightrope: Circus and Its Double in Colonial Bengal/Prodosh Bhattacharya
3. Imperial Malady: Empire and Affect in Colonial Narratives/Anuparna Mukherje
4. Between Space and the Body: The Affective Economy of Caste/Antaripa Bharali
5. A Sense of Waste: Environment as Alienated ‘Setting’ and Bengali Experimental Fiction/Samrat Sengupta

Glossary
Contributors
Index