Terra Aqua

<p>This book is an anthology of key essays that foregrounds coasts islands and shorelines as central to the scholarship on the oceanic environment and climate across South Asia. </p><p>The volume is a collaborative effort amongst historians anthropologists and environmentalists to further understand the lifeworlds of the South Asian littoral that are neither fully aquatic or terrestrial and inescapably both. <i>Terra Aqua</i> invokes a ‘third surface’ located in the interstice of land and water—deltas estuaries tidelands beaches swamps sandbanks and mudflats—and engages in a radical reconceptualization of coastal and shoreline terrains. The book explores uniquely endangered habitats and emergent templates of survival against rising seas and climatic disturbances with particular focus on the Bengal and Malabar coastlines. </p><p>A critical transdisciplinary contribution to the study of climate change in South Asia <i>Terra Aqua</i> examines salinity and submergence coastal erosion subterranean degradation and the depletion of littoral lifeways impacting marine communities and biospheres. It will be of particular interest to scholars of environment studies ecology and climate change in the Global South hydrology geography ocean and island studies environmental justice colonialism and imperial and maritime history.</p>