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<p><span>This volume presents the case of environmental humanities of Bangladesh, a developing country that experiences rapid industrialization, urbanization, and ecological degradation victimizing the masses. The book highlights ecocriticism, environmental justice, biodiversity, and politics of development and sustainability.</span></p>

<p><span>List of Tables and Figures</span></p>
<p><span>Foreword by Scott Slovic</span></p>
<p><span>Acknowledgments</span></p>
<p><span>Introduction</span></p>
<p><span>Samina Luthfa, Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan, and Munasir Kamal</span></p>
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<p><span>Part I: Industrialization, Urbanization, and Space</span></p>
<p><span>Part Ia: Environment and New Politics of Space</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 1: Growth and Disaster: A Tale of Environmental Disaster in the Time of High Growth in Bangladesh</span></p>
<p><span>Anu Muhammad</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 2: Co-management Approach for Nature/Forest Conservation, Corporate Interests, and the Nishorgo Support Project in Bangladesh</span></p>
<p><span>Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 3: Resisting a Coal Mine in Bangladesh and Immigrants in the United Kingdom: The New Agent/Actors in Transnational Environmental Politics</span></p>
<p><span>Samina Luthfa</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 4: Pursuing Justice for All: Eviction and Environmental Injustice in Dhaka</span></p>
<p><span>Lutfun Nahar Lata</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 5: Rohingya Influx: Impacts on Environment and Local Host Communities in Bangladesh</span></p>
<p><span>Mrittika Kamal</span></p>
<p><span>Part Ib: Hazardous Work Environment</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 6: </span><span>Iron Eaters</span><span>: A Story of Scrapped Men</span></p>
<p><span>Fahmidul Haq</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 7: Work Environment and Its Effect on Job Satisfaction in the Ready-Made Garments Industry in Bangladesh</span></p>
<p><span>Zahid ul Arefin Choudhury</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 8: Death of a Thousand Dreams: A Photo Essay on the Rana Plaza Collapse and the Aftermath</span></p>
<p><span>Taslima Akhter</span></p>
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<p><span>Part II: Water, Environment, and Victimhood</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 9: Chokoria Sundarbans: A Forest without Trees</span></p>
<p><span>Philip Gain</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 10: Critically Understanding </span><span>Samta: A Tale of an Arsenic Affected Village</span></p>
<p><span>Fatema-Tuj-Juhra and Rubiat Afrose Raka</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 11: Kaptai Dam </span><span>Bor-Porong</span><span>: The Human Cost of Dam and Development—An Account of Forced Migration</span></p>
<p><span>Monzima Haque</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 12: Historicizing Kaptai Dam, Collective Trauma, and Political Awakening in the Chittagong Hill Tracts</span></p>
<p><span>Munasir Kamal and Mesbah Kamal</span></p>
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<p><span>Part III: Ecocriticism and Creative Space for Environmental Justice</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 13: Ecocentrism and Bauls: Lalon and Radharaman’s Meditative Activism</span></p>
<p><span>Golam Rabbani</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 14: Rabindranath Tagore and Environmental Justice</span></p>
<p><span>Fakrul Alam</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 15: Marginalization of Minorities and the Environment: Bibhutibhushan Bandapadhyay’s </span><span>Pather Panchali </span><span>and </span><span>Aryanak</span></p>
<p><span>Shehreen Ataur Khan</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 16: Reclaiming Voice: In Search of Space and Agency in Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay’s</span><span> Hansuli Banker Upakatha</span></p>
<p><span>Sabrina Binte Masud</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 17: Riverine Communities: A Study of Adwaita Mallabarman’s</span><span> Titas Ekti Nadir Naam</span><span> and Manik Bandopadhyay’s </span><span>Padma Nadir Majhi</span></p>
<p><span>Qazi Arka Rahman and Faria Alam</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 18: Unequal Justice: Ethnicity and Class in Mahasweta Devi’s </span><span>Aranyer Adhikar</span><span> and Selim Al Deen’s </span><span>Bonopangshul</span></p>
<p><span>Soumya Sarker</span></p>
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<p><span>Part IV: Biodiversity, Ecosystem, and Politics of Sustainability</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 19: Plant Biodiversity Management for Nutritional Food Security in Bangladesh</span></p>
<p><span>Lutfur Rahman</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 20: The UN Climate Change Conferences: An Investigative Study of the Shortcomings</span></p>
<p><span>Md. Rezwanul Haque Masud</span></p>
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<p><span>About the Contributors</span></p>

<p><span>Samina Luthfa </span><span>is associate professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Dhaka.</span></p>
<p><span>Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan</span><span> is professor in the Department of International Relations, University of Dhaka.</span></p>
<p><span>Munasir Kamal</span><span> is assistant professor in the Department of English, University of Dhaka.</span></p>