My research focuses on Anglophone extractive fiction from the Global South (especially South Asia and Africa). Drawing from the discipline of energy humanities and adopting a methodology of WReC to understand world literature within the compass of capitalism, I examine these texts to understand how they act as cultural and aesthetic registers of extractive capitalism. With my analysis of texts set in both extractive zones and urban nodes within the extractive circuit I explore how they engage and respond to social imaginaries of extractive promise (hope, aspirations) and its rupture (exhaustion, alienation, sickness and decay) in the Global South. Through this I extend the understanding of resource aesthetics as determined by resource logic to show its manifestations in the literatures of Global South where extractive violence is still spectral and immediate, yet uneven. Further, I propose that these and similar cultural productions from the 'peripheries' might diverge from the prevalent cultural infrastructur.

 

 

• Environmental Humanities
• Energy humanities
• Postcolonial Studies

"Eco-Ability as Narrative Prosthesis: Narrating Disability along Ecocide and Environmental Resistance inImbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were". Narrating, Framing, Reflecting ‘Disability’: 21st-Century ‘American’Perspectives, edited by Wilfried Raussert and Sarah-Lena Essifi, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2025, pp. 227-238. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111379272-013