Please check out the Special Collection “Transformative Environments: Climate Change Uncertainties, Marginality and Locally-Driven Transformative Change in India and Bangladesh", guest edited by me, Synne Movik Shilpi Srivastava.

We explore what transformation looks like ‘from below’ and how it is experienced & enacted by local people, especially marginalised and vulnerable social groups based on empirical research conducted in marginal environments (#Kutch, #Mumbai and #Sundarbans) characterised by high levels of uncertainty. We focus on ‘patches of transformation’: initiatives and alliances between different actors (local communities, NGOs, scientists and state agencies) that seek socially-just and ecologically sound alternatives, based on local people’s ideas of what transformation means, and historical perspectives on it.

#ClimateChange #ClimateDiary #Uncertainty #Transformation #SouthAsia #India #Bangladesh

https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/view/journals/gscj/5/1/gscj.5.issue-1.xml

Pakistani troops manning a 106mm recoilless rifle during the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965

https://piefed.social/c/historyphotos/p/2119681/pakistani-troops-manning-a-106mm-recoilless-rifle-during-the-indo-pakistani-war-of-1965

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: In #Banda, #UttarPradesh, a week-long #heatwave hit 47-48°C. 🌡️

BBC reports how residents like farmers, masons, road workers, and rickshaw drivers reshape their days around the #heat. Researchers link tree loss, sand #mining, and groundwater depletion to rising local temperatures. 🥵

👉 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmp0krp98ro

#india #climate #climatechange #farm #work #health #water #deforestation #southasia #geography #environment #extremeweather #weather

Dagger with agate grip, Mughal India, 18th century AD

https://piefed.social/c/historyartifacts/p/2110144/dagger-with-agate-grip-mughal-india-18th-century-ad

Moplah Knife, India, 18th or 19th century AD

https://piefed.social/c/historyartifacts/p/2107649/moplah-knife-india-18th-or-19th-century-ad