Climate change is a “spice,” argues Camelia Dewan in her book titled Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh. What does she mean by this? Dewan’s extraordinary ethnography, set on the south-west coast of Bangladesh, reveals how the development industry simplifies the ecological, agrarian, and social history of the delta by attributing many of the ongoing crises to climate change. Bangladesh, as it happens, is one of the top recipients of development aid earmarked for climate change adaptation.
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