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      The site of Anthropocene and colonial entanglement: reviewing The Nutmeg’s Curse

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      Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences
      Springer US
      Nutmeg, Terraforming, Vitalism, Colonisation, Anthropocene, Storytelling, Omnicide

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          Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse (2021) offers an incisive template of the intersecting history of Anthropocene and colonisation. The parables retold by Ghosh transport us to a sequestered past obscured by a Eurocentric discourse on colonial modernity. However, it is the same history which is now falling apart to reveal the devastating trajectory of the omnicidal enterprise carried out by the earliest colonising forces. The mapping of anthropogenic activities also helps us identify the locus of the philosophy that has bolstered the impetus of these forces. On one hand, the mechanistic view of life propagated by the colonisers had initiated the inception of colonial modernity; on the other hand, its boomeranging effect coupled with the “great acceleration” (133) has reached a tipping point leading to the present-day environmental crisis. Ghosh’s book is a percipient warning for denialists who believe that the earth is an inert entity and that non-humans are brute forces to be subjugated. To counter this climate crisis, Ghosh comes up with some reversal strategies in which storytellers and indigenous communities may play an active role in restoring “Gaia” with all its vitality.

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                deb61594@gmail.com
                Journal
                J Environ Stud Sci
                J Environ Stud Sci
                Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences
                Springer US (New York )
                2190-6483
                2190-6491
                1 August 2022
                : 1-4
                Affiliations
                GRID grid.466513.3, ISNI 0000 0004 7391 0486, Department of English, , Bodoland University, ; Kokrajhar, India
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                10.1007/s13412-022-00783-9
                9342946
                de84f0b5-b375-4348-bf1a-f5df1a6d0a45
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                : 19 July 2022
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                nutmeg,terraforming,vitalism,colonisation,anthropocene,storytelling,omnicide

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