Final Year Project

Project Title

Living Resistance: Climate Justice Struggles in the Sindhu Delta

Description

Climate change is not a purely scientific or environmental issue; the current climate emergency is a consequence of the modern order built by a ‘few wealthy’ and yet unequivocally affects a ‘global poor’ (Nixon, 2002). The climate justice framing of climate change implies that responses to climate change cannot be just objectively devised scientific solutions but must be contextualized within the social, economic, and political structures of our current world order (UNEP, n.d). This study looks at the case of the Sindhu Delta to explore how geographical modifications on the River Indus or Sindhu affect the livelihood, socio-cultural imagination, and reality of the inhabitants of the Sindhu Delta. I investigate how the subjects (Foucault, 1983) of the Delta imagine this ecological destruction and climate emergency by presenting a detailed discourse analysis (Jager & Maier, 2016) of the documentary film Water Scars that captures narratives of local resistance in lower Sindh.