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Orientalizing Environmentalism: Green Movements in India
India, Issue 4, Essay Vismay Kamate 5/30/20 India, Issue 4, Essay Vismay Kamate 5/30/20

Orientalizing Environmentalism: Green Movements in India

Millenial-led environmental movements in India fall prey to imitating their Western counterparts. If environmentalism is to have any success in the country, we need a more vernacular environmentalism.

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Pandemics and Hunger: Lessons from the 1918 Pandemic in India
India, Essay Kasim Tirmizey 5/23/20 India, Essay Kasim Tirmizey 5/23/20

Pandemics and Hunger: Lessons from the 1918 Pandemic in India

It wasn’t the influenza virus alone, but the agricultural exploitation imposed by colonialism which devastated India in 1918.

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No Harm Here is Still Harm There: The Green New Deal and the Global South (II)
Issue 4, Essay Vijay Kolinjivadi & Ashish Kothari 5/21/20 Issue 4, Essay Vijay Kolinjivadi & Ashish Kothari 5/21/20

No Harm Here is Still Harm There: The Green New Deal and the Global South (II)

A GND which fails to challenge the hegemony of growth-led development perpetuates the exploitation of the Global South and will be unable to prevent global ecological social collapse.

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No Harm Here is Still Harm There: The Green New Deal and the Global South (I)
Issue 4, Essay Vijay Kolinjivadi & Ashish Kothari 5/20/20 Issue 4, Essay Vijay Kolinjivadi & Ashish Kothari 5/20/20

No Harm Here is Still Harm There: The Green New Deal and the Global South (I)

Without accounting for globalized production, a Green New Deal in the Global North will merely spur the imperialist quest for cheaper resources and labour to satisfy “eco-friendly” consumption.

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Sri Lanka’s Tamils Trapped Between War and Waste
Sri Lanka, Issue 4, Essay Visvajit Sriramrajan 5/18/20 Sri Lanka, Issue 4, Essay Visvajit Sriramrajan 5/18/20

Sri Lanka’s Tamils Trapped Between War and Waste

Sri Lanka's environmental progress depends on its treatment of its minority Tamils, who have suffered for decades under majoritarian rule

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Militarism is a Destructive Public Health Response to the Pandemic
India, Sri Lanka, Essay Sonia Joseph & Nangeli 5/12/20 India, Sri Lanka, Essay Sonia Joseph & Nangeli 5/12/20

Militarism is a Destructive Public Health Response to the Pandemic

Across South Asia, regimes have responded to the pandemic with even more militarism. This must end.

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Ecologies of Emancipation: The Mukti Bahini, Rivers and the Unravelling of Pakistan
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Essay Moiz Abdul Majid 5/2/20 Pakistan, Bangladesh, Essay Moiz Abdul Majid 5/2/20

Ecologies of Emancipation: The Mukti Bahini, Rivers and the Unravelling of Pakistan

Peasant guerrillas from the Mukti Bahini used their intimate ecological knowledge of Bangladesh’s waterways to liberate the country.

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Why are Healthcare Workers in Lahore on Hunger Strike?
Pakistan, Essay Zainab Afroze 4/19/20 Pakistan, Essay Zainab Afroze 4/19/20

Why are Healthcare Workers in Lahore on Hunger Strike?

Lack of testing and PPE has left healthcare workers at the mercy of COVID-19, while the government moves only to criminalize their protests.

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COVID-19 Comes to Polluted Lahore
Pakistan, Issue 4, Essay Umair Muhammad 4/18/20 Pakistan, Issue 4, Essay Umair Muhammad 4/18/20

COVID-19 Comes to Polluted Lahore

Lahore’s terrible air quality has prepared the ground for the novel coronavirus to do unspeakable amounts of harm. In coming out of this crisis, we must insist that the city’s deadly air pollution be cleaned up.

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Mystics, Mullahs, and Markets in Post-9/11 Pakistan
Pakistan, Essay Prateek Joshi 2/24/20 Pakistan, Essay Prateek Joshi 2/24/20

Mystics, Mullahs, and Markets in Post-9/11 Pakistan

Responding to Aliza Amin, Prateek Joshi questions the Musharraf-Mysticism alliance and defends Coke Studio.

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The Youth are Fleeing the Farms: Aspiration and Conflict in Kurram, Pakistan
Pakistan, Essay Sibth ul Hassan Turi 2/17/20 Pakistan, Essay Sibth ul Hassan Turi 2/17/20

The Youth are Fleeing the Farms: Aspiration and Conflict in Kurram, Pakistan

Hassan Turi explores the contradiction between agricultural labour shortages and youth unemployment in rural Pakistan.

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“We the (Seditious) People”: Repression and Revolution in South Asia
India, Pakistan, Essay Ammar Ali Jan 1/20/20 India, Pakistan, Essay Ammar Ali Jan 1/20/20

“We the (Seditious) People”: Repression and Revolution in South Asia

Colonial-era sedition laws used to criminalize dissent to protect imperial sovereignty. Now that “The People are sovereign” in independent India and Pakistan, why are they still being charged with sedition?

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