Postcolonial nonhuman blurring (b)orders in migrant ecologies: a postanthropocentric reading of Amitav Ghosh’s "Gun Island"

Amitav Ghosh’s novel "Gun Island" (2019) explores the intersection of the nonhuman with 21stcentury issues pertaining to racial and ecological injustice, ethnic cleansing, environmental catastrophe and migrant ecologies by way of allegorising the myth of Manasa Devi (goddess of snakes and other venomous creatures). A postcolonial ecocritical lens helps analyse how the novelist presents nonhuman actors to contest Western anthropocentric conceptualisations of human subjectivity shaped by historical forces of modernity. By positing a postanthropocentric way of reading the world in order to shape new human subjectivities which do not efface human-nonhuman entanglements, my paper studies how Ghosh recognises agentic capacities and storied matter of the postcolonial nonhuman subject matter by identifying the novel’s subversive negotiations through the tropes of language, embodiment, genre, and everyday environmentalism. I analyse how the contextualisation of the postcolonial nonhuman not only critiques human exceptionalism but destabilises the constructedness of borders in terms of an immaterial myth projecting an otherworldly possibility, trans-corporeality positing inescapable interconnectedness between humans and all living and non-living matter, and everyday environmentalism broadening the definition of environment to contest nature-culture dualism. I also argue that this ecofiction’s allegorisation of Manasa Devi’s myth through the unseen boundaries that she seeks to retain problematises a simplistic understanding of borders as limiting. My paper thus analyses how this reconceptualisation through the postcolonial nonhuman blurs borders and their ordering of the world and posits, instead, a relational living that dismantles constructedness of hierarchies while paying heed to (b)orders for ecological sustainable living.La novela "Gun Island" (2019) de Amitav Ghosh explora la intersección de lo no humano con los problemas del siglo XXI relacionados con la injusticia racial y ecológica, la limpieza étnica, la catástrofe ambiental y las ecologías migratorias alegorizando el mito de Manasa Devi (diosa de las serpientes y otras criaturas venenosas). Una lente ecocrítica poscolonial ayuda a analizar cómo el novelista presenta actores no humanos para cuestionar las conceptualizaciones antropocéntricas occidentales de la subjetividad humana moldeadas por las fuerzas históricas de la modernidad. Al postular una forma posantropocéntrica de leer el mundo para dar forma a nuevas subjetividades humanas que no borran los enredos entre humanos y no humanos, mi artículo estudia cómo Ghosh reconoce las capacidades de los agentes y la materia histórica del tema poscolonial no humano al identificar las negociaciones subversivas de la novela a través de los tropos de lenguaje, encarnación, género y ecologismo cotidiano. Analizo cómo la contextualización de lo no humano poscolonial no solo critica el excepcionalismo humano sino que desestabiliza la construcción de las fronteras en términos de un mito inmaterial que proyecta una posibilidad de otro mundo. La transcorporeidad postula la interconexión ineludible entre los humanos y toda la materia viva y no viva, y el ecologismo cotidiano, ampliando así la definición de medio ambiente para cuestionar el dualismo naturaleza-cultura. También argumento que la alegorización de esta ecoficción del mito de Manasa Devi a través de los límites invisibles que ella busca retener problematiza una comprensión simplista de los bordes como limitantes. Por lo tanto, mi artículo analiza cómo esta reconceptualización a través de lo no humano poscolonial desdibuja las fronteras y su ordenamiento del mundo y postula, en cambio, una vida relacional que desmantela la construcción de jerarquías mientras presta atención a órdenes/bordes para una vida ecológica sostenible

An Engagement with Life-Place Entanglements: An Ecocritical Reading of Anita Desai’s Fire on the Mountain

Through an ecocritical perspective, my paper is a geocritical study of Anita Desai’s novel Fire on the Mountain (1977) by analyzing the literary text’s engagement with the natural landscape as its platial setting and the textual representation of nature. My paper analyzes the presencing and representation of the environment and to what effect (and affect) has the place of Carignano (the site at which the story unfolds) been modelled as a life-place for the novel’s characters, to critically study the delineation of interdependence between organisms (both human and nonhuman) and their environment. Thus, my paper seeks to emphasize the relationality between the characters and their environment to analyze how the spatial discourse effectively shapes the characters’ mindscapes and ecological visions respectively

An Engagement with Life-Place Entanglements: An Ecocritical Reading of Anita Desai’s Fire on the Mountain

Through an ecocritical perspective, my paper is a geocritical study of Anita Desai’s novel Fire on the Mountain (1977) by analyzing the literary text’s engagement with the natural landscape as its platial setting and the textual representation of nature. My paper analyzes the presencing and representation of the environment and to what effect (and affect) has the place of Carignano (the site at which the story unfolds) been modelled as a life-place for the novel’s characters, to critically study the delineation of interdependence between organisms (both human and nonhuman) and their environment. Thus, my paper seeks to emphasize the relationality between the characters and their environment to analyze how the spatial discourse effectively shapes the characters’ mindscapes and ecological visions respectively.</jats:p

Fronteras y órdenes borrosas poscoloniales no humanas en ecologías migratorias: Una lectura posantropocéntrica de "Gun Island" de Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh’s novel Gun Island (2019) explores the intersection of the nonhuman with 21st century issues pertaining to racial and ecological injustice, ethnic cleansing, environmental catastrophe and migrant ecologies by way of allegorising the myth of Manasa Devi (goddess of snakes and other venomous creatures). A postcolonial ecocritical lens helps analyse how the novelist presents nonhuman actors to contest Western anthropocentric conceptualisations of human subjectivity shaped by historical forces of modernity. By positing a postanthropocentric way of reading the world in order to shape new human subjectivities which do not efface human-nonhuman entanglements, my paper studies how Ghosh recognises agentic capacities and storied matter of the postcolonial nonhuman subject matter by identifying the novel’s subversive negotiations through the tropes of language, embodiment, genre, and everyday environmentalism. I analyse how the contextualisation of the postcolonial nonhuman not only critiques human exceptionalism but destabilises the constructedness of borders in terms of an immaterial myth projecting an otherworldly possibility, trans-corporeality positing inescapable interconnectedness between humans and all living and non-living matter, and everyday environmentalism broadening the definition of environment to contest nature-culture dualism. I also argue that this ecofiction’s allegorisation of Manasa Devi’s myth through the unseen boundaries that she seeks to retain problematise a simplistic understanding of borders as limiting. My paper thus analyses how this reconceptualisation through the postcolonial nonhuman blurs borders and their ordering of the world and posits, instead, a relational living that dismantles constructedness of hierarchies while paying heed to (b)orders for ecological sustainable living.  La novela Gun Island (2019) de Amitav Ghosh explora la intersección de lo no humano con los problemas del siglo XXI relacionados con la injusticia racial y ecológica, la limpieza étnica, la catástrofe ambiental y las ecologías migratorias alegorizando el mito de Manasa Devi (diosa de las serpientes y otras criaturas venenosas). Una lente ecocrítica poscolonial ayuda a analizar cómo el novelista presenta actores no humanos para cuestionar las conceptualizaciones antropocéntricas occidentales de la subjetividad humana moldeadas por las fuerzas históricas de la modernidad. Al postular una forma posantropocéntrica de leer el mundo para dar forma a nuevas subjetividades humanas que no borran los enredos entre humanos y no humanos, mi artículo estudia cómo Ghosh reconoce las capacidades de los agentes y la materia histórica del tema poscolonial no humano al identificar las negociaciones subversivas de la novela a través de la tropos de lenguaje, encarnación, género y ecologismo cotidiano. Analizo cómo la contextualización de lo no humano poscolonial no solo critica el excepcionalismo humano sino que desestabiliza la construcción de las fronteras en términos de un mito inmaterial que proyecta una posibilidad de otro mundo. La transcorporeidad postula la interconexión ineludible entre los humanos y toda la materia viva y no viva, y el ecologismo cotidiano, ampliando así la definición de medio ambiente para cuestionar el dualismo naturaleza-cultura. También argumento que la alegorización de esta ecoficción del mito de Manasa Devi a través de los límites invisibles que ella busca retener problematiza una comprensión simplista de los bordes como limitantes. Por lo tanto, mi artículo analiza cómo esta reconceptualización a través de lo no humano poscolonial desdibuja las fronteras y su ordenamiento del mundo y postula, en cambio, una vida relacional que desmantela la construcción de jerarquías mientras presta atención a órdenes/bordes para una vida ecológica sostenible

Cloud based agricultural field parameters monitoring using ESP8266 and ZigBee

To improve the production of agricultural, monitoring of the different parameters in the field has been proven to be the powerful tool. With the advent of technology crop monitoring may be achieved at very precise level; however Wireless Sensor Area Network result in low power and low cost deployments and Cloud based field monitoring is becoming a dominant option. So a method has been developed for agricultural systems that act as phonological indicators of various seasonal developments in the field and number of climate effect upon the regional growth over the crop for a broad region using (IoT) Internet of Things. The developed platform has been evaluated for various field parameters, creating a WSAN with a base station to record various parameters and finally uploaded this parameter to the Internet server. The performance result of the developed system has shown the feasibility and confirms its future aspects in broad sense.   </jats:p