Reading Resources

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Coggins, C. (2019). Sacred watersheds and the fate of the village body politic in Tibetan and Han communities under China’s ecological civilization. Religions, 10(11), 600. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10110600

Courtney, C. (2018). The Flood Pulse. In The Nature of Disaster in China: The 1931 Yangzi River Flood (Studies in Environment and History, pp. 56-89). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108278362.003

Courtney, C. (2018). The Long River 长江. In The Nature of Disaster in China: The 1931 Yangzi River Flood (Studies in Environment and History, pp. 17-55). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108278362.002

D’Souza, R. (2020). Event, Process and Pulse: Resituating Floods in Environmental Histories of South Asia. Environment and History, 26(1), 31–49. https://doi.org/10.3197/096734019×15755402985541 ‌

Dewan, Camelia. Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh. University of Washington Press, 2021, Chapter 1. 

Duara, P. (2021). Oceans as the Paradigm of History. Theory, Culture & Society, 026327642098453. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276420984538 ‌

Gilmartin D. (2016). Blood and Water: The Indus River Basin in Modern History. pp. 356. Oakland, California, University of California Press, 2015. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 26(3), 530–532. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1356186316000043 ‌

Heé, N. (2020). Negotiating Migratory Tuna: Territorialization of the Oceans, Trans-war Knowledge and Fisheries Diplomacy. Diplomatic History, 44(3), 413–427. https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhaa014

Kaplan M. (2008). Fijian Water in Fiji and New York: Local Politics and a Global Commodity. Cultural Anthropology, 22(4), 685–706. https://doi.org/10.1525/can.2007.22.4.685 ‌

Kondolf, G. M., Schmitt, R. J. P., Carling, P., Darby, S., Arias, M., Bizzi, S., Castelletti, A., Cochrane, T. A., Gibson, S., Kummu, M., Oeurng, C., Rubin, Z., & Wild, T. (2018). Changing sediment budget of the Mekong: Cumulative Threats and Management Strategies for a Large River Basin. Science of the Total Environment, 625, 114–134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.11.361 ‌

Kondolf, G. M., Schmitt, R. J. P., Carling, P. A., Goichot, M., Keskinen, M., Arias, M. E., Bizzi, S., Castelletti, A., Cochrane, T. A., Darby, S. E., Kummu, M., Minderhoud, P. S. J., Nguyen, D., Nguyen, H. T., Nguyen, N. T., Oeurng, C., Opperman, J., Rubin, Z., San, D. C., & Schmeier, S. (2022). Save the Mekong Delta from Drowning. Science, 376(6593), 583–585. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abm5176 ‌

Merchant, C. (2020). The Anthropocene and the Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of Sustainability. Yale University Press.

Mostern, R. (2019). Loess is More: The Spatial and Ecological History of Erosion on China’s Northwest Frontier. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 62(4), 560–598. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685209-12341488 ‌

Paprocki, K. (2022). On viability: Climate change and the science of possible futures. Global Environmental Change, 73, 102487. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102487

Peters, K., & Steinberg, P. (2019). The Ocean in Excess: Towards a More-than-wet Ontology. Dialogues in Human Geography, 9(3), 293–307. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820619872886 ‌

Ray, S., Venugopal, M., & James, W. L. (2020). From Nallah to Nadi , Stream to Sewer to Stream Urban Waterscape. In Water Histories of South Asia: The Nateriality of Liquescence (pp. 135–157). essay, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.

Sandström, N. (2014). The Semiotics of Drink and Drinking Paul Manning (2012) London and New York: Continuum [Continuum Advances in Semiotics] Pp. 245 ISBN: 978-1-4411-3774-6. Sociolinguistic Studies, 8(2), 337–341. https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.v8i2.337 ‌

Steinberg, P., Ferloni, G., Aporta, C., Bridge, G., Chircop, A., Coddington, K., Elden, S., Kane, S. C., Koivurova, T., Shadian, J., & Stammler-Gossmann, A. (2022). Navigating the Structural Coherence of Sea Ice. In I. Braverman (Ed.), Laws of the Sea: Interdisciplinary Currents (pp. 165-183). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003205173-8

Shankar, D. (2022). Water, Fish and Property in Colonial India, 1860–1890. Past & Present. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtab043

Shih, V. (2010). China’s Water Warriors: Citizen Action and Policy Change. By Andrew Mertha. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. 192p. $29.95. Perspectives on Politics8(2), 645–646. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1537592710000654

Terje Tvedt. (2021). Water and Society: Changing Perceptions of Societal and Historical Development. Bloomsbury. ‌

Weller, R. P., & Wu, K. (2021). Overnight Urbanization and Changing Spirits. Current Anthropology, 62(5), 602–630. https://doi.org/10.1086/716691  ‌

Wescoat, J. L. (2009). Submerged Landscapes: The Public Trust in Urban Environmental Design, from Chicago to Karachi and back again. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, 10(3), 435. https://doi.org/10.2307/vermjenvilaw.10.3.435

Wescoat, J. L., Jr. (2000). Wittfogel East and West: Changing Perspectives on Water Development in South Asia and the US, 1670- 2000” in A. B.Murphy and D. L.Johnson (Eds.), Cultural Encounters with the Environment: Enduring and Evolving Geographic Themes, 2000, 109–32.