Lyla Mehta, Hans Nicolai Adam and Shilpi Srivastava, The Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India (Pathways to Sustainability), 2021, 215 pp., ₹3,466, Routledge. ISBN: 1032190787.
Lyla Mehta, Hans Nicolai Adam and Shilpi Srivastava’s The Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India offers a significant intervention in the study of climate governance by examining how uncertainty is produced, understood and navigated in India. While global climate change research has often been dominated by techno-managerial solutions and risk-based assessments, this book moves beyond those frameworks by situating uncertainty within social, political and cultural contexts. It thus attempts to bridge a major gap in the existing literature that frequently treats uncertainty as a purely scientific or calculable category, ignoring how it is lived and experienced on the ground. The work, published as part of Routledge’s Pathways to Sustainability series, presents a persuasive argument that the politics of uncertainty must be understood in relation to power, knowledge and justice. more...