The Nature of Endangerment
@Dr_EDR
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An Associate Professor of Modern South Asian History and #EnvHist. Thinking about #endangerment & #extinction.
Joined December 2013
Disgusted by everyone who continues to support this platform. Long since x'd out of here, EDR.
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collecting such tweets for tomorrow's talk.
कान्हा राष्ट्रीय उद्यान में बैगा आदिवासी युगल,गरीबी तन की लेकिन राग अमीर है,साथी ये जो भूख है न इस बिंदासी से मिट जाती है#विलुप्त प्रजाति
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RT @FLAMEUniversity: Join us on August 26th at 6 pm IST for an insightful India Series webinar featuring Prof. Ezra Rashkow, Associate Prof….
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RT @SOAS_SpecColl: This book of animals, plants and stones, ʻAjāyib al-dunyā, published 1865 in Lucknow covers topics such as zoology, bota….
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RT @JackDAshby: I am *extremely* excited about this. Please share with anyone who might be keen: we're offering a FULLY FUNDED PhD students….
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RT @profsprof: A recent article in JSTOR Daily about #British #hunters in 19th-century #India features an interview with and discusses rese….
daily.jstor.org
In nineteenth-century India, many locals stood up against British hunting—sometimes at the cost of their own lives—as a means of cultural conservation.
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RT @Culture_Crit: "Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things." - G.K. Chesterton. The greatest apocalyptic paintings in h….
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RT @nativenews_net: Top Story of The Week: US Presidents in Their Own Words Concerning American Indians
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RT @SenSanders: Does Congress really want to provide military aid to Netanyahu so that he can annihilate more innocent people?. Do we want….
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Enjoyed reading this piece by Livia Gershon: 'Resisting British Hunters in India', JSTOR Daily, 7 January 2024.
daily.jstor.org
In nineteenth-century India, many locals stood up against British hunting—sometimes at the cost of their own lives—as a means of cultural conservation.
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A horrific, tragic story. Atrocities like these are far too often committed by members of dominant caste communities against marginalized Dalits & Adivasis. Will such despicable violence ever stop?.
In May 2021, five of Bharti’s family members went missing overnight in their village in Madhya Pradesh. She filed a missing complaint. 49 days later the police brought tragic news. All of Bharti's family members were murdered. This story shows why tribals in MP live in fear🧵.
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There are now more honey bees on the planet than there have ever been in human history. Still, the save-the-bees narrative persists
nytimes.com
In Slovenia and around the world, conservationists try — and mostly fail — to combat the widespread belief that honey bees are in danger.
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Fascinating story about the Piripkura Indigenous reserve in Brazil and the two men who live there.
nytimes.com
Pakyi and Tamandua are the final known isolated members of the Piripkura people. They are posing a tricky challenge for Brazil.
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It's even cheaper on - about $32 with shipping. They must be getting copies from India where it sells new for about $18 .
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In case anyone in the US is interested in buying a copy of my book, it's now available here for $40, as opposed to the list price of $100.
amazon.com
Perhaps no category of people on earth has been perceived as more endangered, nor subjected to more conservation efforts, than indigenous peoples. And in India, calls for the conservation of Adivasi...
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