Lecturer

Camelia Dewan

Institute: Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo
Research area: Environment and climate change, International development cooperation & coordination, Migration, Water resources, Women
Research region: Global, Asia-Pacific, Europe-Central Asia

Publications

Global containments and local leakages: Structural violence and the toxic flows of shipbreaking

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
Overcoming challenges for implementing nature-based solutions in deltaic environments: insights from the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta in Bangladesh

Environmental Research Letters
Impure Foods: Entanglements of Soil, Food, and Human Health in Bangladesh

Gastronomica
The politics of Swidden farming: environment and development in Eastern India

Asian Ethnicity
Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh By KasiaPaprocki, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 270 pp.

American Anthropologist
Living with toxic development: Shipbreaking in the industrializing zone of Sitakunda, Bangladesh

Anthropology Today
Evolution of water management in coastal Bangladesh: from temporary earthen embankments to depoliticized community-managed polders

Water International
Durniti or Durbolata: Self-Policing, Social Relations and Regulative Weakness in the Everyday Lives of Bangladeshi Government Officials

Masks of Authoritarianism
‘Climate Change as a Spice’: Brokering Environmental Knowledge in Bangladesh’s Development Industry

Ethnos
Climate refugees or labour migrants? Climate reductive translations of women’s migration from coastal Bangladesh

The Journal of Peasant Studies
Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh By KasiaPaprocki, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 270 pp.

American Anthropologist