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Narrativa e politica ambientale: una visione extra-occidentale
No full textTraduzione di Amitav Ghosh, "Wild Fictions: Narratives of Nature and the Politics of Forests" (2005)Translation of Amitav Ghosh, "Wild Fictions: Narratives of Nature and the Politics of Forests" (2005
Bon Bibi e la tigre. L'importanza dell'inconscio ambientale
No full textTraduzione in italiano di Amitav Ghosh, "Wild Fictions: Narratives of Nature and the Politics of Forests" (2005)Italian translation of Amitav Ghosh, "Wild Fictions: Narratives of Nature and the Politics of Forests" (2005
Amitav Ghosh: Welten Imaginieren
No full textWas hat die Muskatnuss mit Klimawandel zu tun? Oder Mohn mit Kapitalismus?
Wie kaum ein Anderer vermag der indische Schriftsteller Amitav Ghosh, globale Verflechtungen und Widersprüche in Worten auszudrücken. In seinen Romanen und Sachbüchern verbindet er koloniale Geschichte(n) auf fundierte und fantastische Weise mit aktuellen Fragen zu Migration, globaler Ungleichheit und zur weltweiten Klimakrise. Wortgewaltig lässt er uns in längst vergessene Geschichten und unbekannte Welten eintauchen, um die globalen Herausforderungen der Gegenwart neu zu betrachten.
In Bern liest Amitav Ghosh aus seinen Werken und tritt in einen Dialog mit Stimmen aus Forschung, Aktivismus und Kultur
A Few words from Amitav Ghosh on Gun Island
No full textAmitav Ghosh discusses his novel Gun Island with Asis De and Alessandro Vescov
Ep. #040 - Amitav Ghosh
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Cymene and Dominic define (finally!) professionalism and offer a brief review of Leonardo DiCaprio’s soon to be released climate change documentary, Before the Flood. Then (11:43) we are very pleased to welcome to the podcast acclaimed novelist, Amitav Ghosh, author of The Shadow Lines (1988), The Hungry Tide (2004) and The Ibis trilogy (2008-2015), among many other works. We talk about his latest work of non-fiction, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and why he thinks it has proven so difficult to bring climate change into literature. We discuss the worldview of the novel and how its emphasis on creating believable narratives has excluded precisely the kinds of unlikely anthropocenic encounters that are becoming increasingly frequent across the world. Amitav argues that before an alternate world can become a reality, it needs to become an imaginative reality and this is why the arts are so crucial to coming to terms with the Anthropocene. We also discuss “serious” art’s fear of being deemed merely “illustrative” and how this may be linked to a Cold War aversion to the aesthetics of socialist realism. Now, Amitav warns, the world has risen up as a protagonist even as our means of representation aren’t up to engaging it. He predicts that the mansions of serious fiction will suffer a similar fate to the mansions of Miami beach as our waters rise. We talk about what is really being denied in climate change denial and how the privileges and comforts of a carbon-fueled lifestyle is something which neither the West nor Asia is prepared to give up. We close with Amitav’s own next novel project and how climate change inspires him personally and artistically
Amitav Ghosh: Climate Change Here and Now
No full textIn this contribution I would like to give back something of the atmosphere of the debate that gave birth to Amitav Ghosh’s essay The Great Derangement. Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016). By referring to the lectures that preceded its publication and to the introductory presentations of the author on behalf of major scholars of the University of Chicago, and to the questions by the audience, it is possible to reconstruct a whole debate that acquires different meanings in the Anglophone countries and in Europe. Questioning some of the assumptions implied in Amitav Ghosh’s discourse it is possible to better place his text and the relevance of climate change within our literary and philosophical discourse, and to re-think our cultural policies, and didactic engagement, here and now
Amitav Ghosh, Diluvio di fuoco
No full textLa trilogia di Amitav Ghosh vista dal punto di vista storico. Amitav Ghosh's trilogy in the perspective of history.Amitav Ghosh's trilogy in the perspective of history
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