The Great Convergence
Environmental Histories of BRICS
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9780199479375
Publication date:
12/02/2018
Hardback
462 pages
Price: 1195.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780199479375
Publication date:
12/02/2018
Hardback
462 pages
Edited by S. Ravi Rajan and Lise Sedrez
The Great Convergence offers new perspectives on the BRICS nations through a collaborative effort of environmental historians from Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. This edited volume attempts to go beyond the economic and geopolitical paradigms to trace the dynamics of environmental change within the BRICS countries from a historical perspective.
Focusing on three basic themes—the state, civil society, and historiography—this volume investigates the relations between nature and society over time in each of the BRICS nations and how can they together face the current environmental challenges.
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Edited by S. Ravi Rajan and Lise Sedrez
Description
The emergence of BRICS, a complex yet intriguing entity, is representative of the coming together of nations with vastly different histories, cultures, and ideals. The Great Convergence offers new perspectives on it through a collaborative effort of environmental historians from Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
This edited volume attempts to go beyond the economic and geopolitical paradigms to trace the dynamics of environmental change within the BRICS countries from a historical perspective. The contributors insist that the past matters. The past, they say, is crucial to study institutional evolution, efficacy of governance, threads in policymaking, and the emergence of what are often dismissed as irrational human trends.
Focusing on three basic themes—the state, civil society, and historiography—this volume investigates the relations between nature and society over time in each of the BRICS nations and how can they together face the current environmental challenges.
About the Editors
S. Ravi Rajan is professor of environmental history at University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
Lise Sedrez is an environmental historian at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Edited by S. Ravi Rajan and Lise Sedrez
Table of contents
List of Figures
Foreword by Jairam Ramesh
Preface
Introduction by S. Ravi Rajan
PART I THE STATE
1 State and Environment in Brazil: In Defence of Society
Regina Horta Duarte
2 Russia, State Power, and the Environment
Paul Josephson
3 The State of Environmental History in India
S. Ravi Rajan
4 The Trajectory of Contemporary China State’s Involvement in Environmental Issues
Xueqin Mei
5 The State, Science, and Environmental Management in South Africa, c. 1870 to the Present
William Beinart
PART II CIVIL SOCIETY
6 Civil Society and Environmentalism in Brazil: The Twentieth Century’s Great Acceleration
José Augusto Pádua
7 Non-state Actors in Environmental History of Russia
Nicolai Dronin
8 The Environment and Civil Society in India
Radhika Krishnan
9 Understanding the Development of Civil Society and ENGOs in China since 1979
Fei Sheng
10 From Conservation to Environmental Justice: Trends in the Relationship between the State and Environmental Civil Society Organizations in South Africa
Farieda Khan
PART III HISTORIOGRAPHY
11 What Do Brazilian Environmental Historians Really Do? An Overview of Research and Main Themes of the Discipline
Lise Sedrez and Eunice Nodari
12 Russian Environmental History: A Historiographical Review
Julia Lajus
13 Indian Environmental History: An Overview
S. Ravi Rajan and Rohan D’Souza
14 Making New Wine in Old Casks: Environmental History in China
Shen Hou
15 South Africa’s Environmental History: A Historiography
Sandra Swart
16 The Great Convergence and Historiography
S. Ravi Rajan
Bibliography
Editors and Contributors
Index
Edited by S. Ravi Rajan and Lise Sedrez
Edited by S. Ravi Rajan and Lise Sedrez
Review
‘A superb book, it is a must for understanding the short and relevant history of the BRICS and future prospectives.’
—Eduardo Viola, full professor, international relations, University of Brasilia, Brazil
‘This fascinating book brings new dimensions to the social analysis of the past that can help us to understand better current situations and think of the future in all BRICS countries.’
—Daniel Alexandrov, dean of St Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
‘Can a grouping based merely on size, rates of economic growth and the promise of, together, rebalancing the world, be stable? This book examines the socio-environmental evolution of the BRICS countries in search of greater foundational credence. A must read …’
—Leena Srivastava, vice chancellor, TERI University, New Delhi, India.
‘Out of harmony, says a Chinese proverb, comes creativity, and so it happens here. A harmonious gathering of BRICS scholars brings new insight to the consequences of globalization.’
—Mingfang Xia, director of the Center for Ecological History, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
‘The environmental perspectives of each BRICS member country suggest new directions in comparative historiography. This innovative volume provides better understanding of the Great Convergence.’
—Jane Carruthers, emeritus professor, Department of History, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
Description
The emergence of BRICS, a complex yet intriguing entity, is representative of the coming together of nations with vastly different histories, cultures, and ideals. The Great Convergence offers new perspectives on it through a collaborative effort of environmental historians from Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
This edited volume attempts to go beyond the economic and geopolitical paradigms to trace the dynamics of environmental change within the BRICS countries from a historical perspective. The contributors insist that the past matters. The past, they say, is crucial to study institutional evolution, efficacy of governance, threads in policymaking, and the emergence of what are often dismissed as irrational human trends.
Focusing on three basic themes—the state, civil society, and historiography—this volume investigates the relations between nature and society over time in each of the BRICS nations and how can they together face the current environmental challenges.
About the Editors
S. Ravi Rajan is professor of environmental history at University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
Lise Sedrez is an environmental historian at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Reviews
‘A superb book, it is a must for understanding the short and relevant history of the BRICS and future prospectives.’
—Eduardo Viola, full professor, international relations, University of Brasilia, Brazil
‘This fascinating book brings new dimensions to the social analysis of the past that can help us to understand better current situations and think of the future in all BRICS countries.’
—Daniel Alexandrov, dean of St Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
‘Can a grouping based merely on size, rates of economic growth and the promise of, together, rebalancing the world, be stable? This book examines the socio-environmental evolution of the BRICS countries in search of greater foundational credence. A must read …’
—Leena Srivastava, vice chancellor, TERI University, New Delhi, India.
‘Out of harmony, says a Chinese proverb, comes creativity, and so it happens here. A harmonious gathering of BRICS scholars brings new insight to the consequences of globalization.’
—Mingfang Xia, director of the Center for Ecological History, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
‘The environmental perspectives of each BRICS member country suggest new directions in comparative historiography. This innovative volume provides better understanding of the Great Convergence.’
—Jane Carruthers, emeritus professor, Department of History, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
Table of contents
List of Figures
Foreword by Jairam Ramesh
Preface
Introduction by S. Ravi Rajan
PART I THE STATE
1 State and Environment in Brazil: In Defence of Society
Regina Horta Duarte
2 Russia, State Power, and the Environment
Paul Josephson
3 The State of Environmental History in India
S. Ravi Rajan
4 The Trajectory of Contemporary China State’s Involvement in Environmental Issues
Xueqin Mei
5 The State, Science, and Environmental Management in South Africa, c. 1870 to the Present
William Beinart
PART II CIVIL SOCIETY
6 Civil Society and Environmentalism in Brazil: The Twentieth Century’s Great Acceleration
José Augusto Pádua
7 Non-state Actors in Environmental History of Russia
Nicolai Dronin
8 The Environment and Civil Society in India
Radhika Krishnan
9 Understanding the Development of Civil Society and ENGOs in China since 1979
Fei Sheng
10 From Conservation to Environmental Justice: Trends in the Relationship between the State and Environmental Civil Society Organizations in South Africa
Farieda Khan
PART III HISTORIOGRAPHY
11 What Do Brazilian Environmental Historians Really Do? An Overview of Research and Main Themes of the Discipline
Lise Sedrez and Eunice Nodari
12 Russian Environmental History: A Historiographical Review
Julia Lajus
13 Indian Environmental History: An Overview
S. Ravi Rajan and Rohan D’Souza
14 Making New Wine in Old Casks: Environmental History in China
Shen Hou
15 South Africa’s Environmental History: A Historiography
Sandra Swart
16 The Great Convergence and Historiography
S. Ravi Rajan
Bibliography
Editors and Contributors
Index
