TY - JOUR A1 - Joseph, May A1 - Varino, Sofia T1 - Multidirectional Thalassology BT - Comparative ecologies between the Venetian Lagoon and the Indian Ocean JF - Shima : the international journal of research into Island cultures / Island Cultures Research Centre (ICRC) N2 - This article merges discourses from Indian Ocean studies, Island Studies, performance art and decolonial methodologies to offer interdisciplinary ways of thinking about La Serenissima and its navigational histories. It is a transdisciplinary speculative entry, part empirical, part analytical, part applied phenomenology. We write this as a collaboration between two members of the Harmattan Theater company, a New York City based environmental performance ensemble applying environmental theory to site-specific performances engaging oceans and islands. The article is driven by the following research questions: What are the historic relationalities between the Venice lagoon and the Indian Ocean? How has the acqua alto flooding of Venice, accompanied by the mnemonic histories of the Venetian lagoon, impacted understandings of lagoon cultures in the global South, particularly the Malabar Coast of South Asia? This question has propelled the artistic and academic research of May Joseph and Sofia Varino across environmental history, island studies and performance. Drawing on histories of Venetian navigation and lagoon culture, Joseph and Varino propose a comparative lagoon aesthetics, one that would link two archipelagic regions, the Venetian Lagoon and the extended archipelagic region of the Laccadive Sea of India. While we believe a contemporary archipelagic study connecting these two regions does not currently exist, the historical archives suggest otherwise. We draw on the Venetian Camaldolese monk and cartographer Fra Mauro's Mappa Mundi from the 15th Century to initiate this comparative dialogue between North/Southisland ecologies, seafaring histories and ocean futures affected by climate change and rising sea levels. This research is part of a book that Joseph and Varino are co-writing on islands, archipelagos, coastal regions and climate change, drawing on a ten-year collaboration working with large-scale site-specific environmental performance as research, activism and embodied phenomenology. KW - Indian Ocean KW - South Asia KW - Venetian lagoons KW - islands KW - maritime history KW - decolonial performance KW - ecology Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.21463/shima.118 SN - 1834-6049 SN - 1834-6057 VL - 15 IS - 1 SP - 256 EP - 272 PB - ICRC CY - Sydney ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ramachandran, Srikanthan A1 - Rupakheti, Maheswar A1 - Lawrence, Mark T1 - Black carbon dominates the aerosol absorption over the Indo-Gangetic Plain and the Himalayan foothills JF - Environment international : a journal of science, technology, health, monitoring and policy N2 - This study, based on new and high quality in situ observations, quantifies for the first time, the individual contributions of light-absorbing aerosols (black carbon (BC), brown carbon (BrC) and dust) to aerosol absorption over the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) and the Himalayan foothill region, a relatively poorly studied region with several sensitive ecosystems of global importance, as well as highly vulnerable populations. The annual and seasonal average single scattering albedo (SSA) over Kathmandu is the lowest of all the locations. The SSA over Kathmandu is < 0.89 during all seasons, which confirms the dominance of light-absorbing carbonaceous aerosols from local and regional sources over Kathmandu. It is observed here that the SSA decreases with increasing elevation, confirming the dominance of light absorbing carbonaceous aerosols at higher elevations. In contrast, the SSA over the IGP does not exhibit a pronounced spatial variation. BC dominates (>= 75%) the aerosol absorption over the IGP and the Himalayan foothills throughout the year. Higher BC concentration at elevated locations in the Himalayas leads to lower SSA at elevated locations in the Himalayas. The contribution of dust to aerosol absorption is higher throughout the year over the IGP than over the Himalayan foothills. The aerosol absorption over South Asia is very high, exceeding available observations over East Asia, and also exceeds previous model estimates. This quantification will be valuable as observational constraints to help improve regional simulations of climate change, impacts on the glaciers and the hydrological cycle, and will help to direct the focus towards BC as the main contributor to aerosol-induced warming in the region. KW - atmospheric aerosols KW - characteristics KW - absorption KW - black carbon KW - brown KW - carbon KW - dust KW - Himalayas KW - IGP KW - South Asia Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2020.105814 SN - 0160-4120 SN - 1873-6750 VL - 142 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin T1 - Global-local dynamics in anti-feminist discourses BT - an analysis of Indian, Russian and US online communities JF - International affairs N2 - Women's rights are a core part of a global consensus on human rights. However, we are currently experiencing an increasing popularity of anti-feminist and misogynist politics threatening to override feminist gains. In order to help explain this current revival and appeal, in this article I analyse how anti-feminist communities construct their collective identities at the intersection of local and global trends and affiliations. Through an in-depth analysis of representations in the collective identities of six popular online anti-feminist communities based in India, Russia and the United States, I shed light on how anti-feminists discursively construct their anti-feminist 'self' and the feminist 'other' between narratives of localized resistance to change and backlash against the results of broader societal developments associated with globalization. The results expose a complex set of global-local dynamics, which provide a nuanced understanding of the differences and commonalities of anti-feminist collective identity-building and mobilization processes across contexts. By explicitly focusing on the role of discursively produced locations for anti-feminist identity-building and providing new evidence on anti-feminist communities across three different continents, the article contributes to current discussions on transnational anti-feminist mobilizations in both social movement studies and feminist International Relations. KW - International Relations Theory KW - Americas KW - South Asia KW - Russia and Eurasia Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiaa130 SN - 0020-5850 SN - 1468-2346 VL - 96 IS - 5 SP - 1367 EP - 1385 PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford ER -