Camelia Dewan

Dr. Camelia Dewan is an environmental anthropologist focusing on the anthropology of development. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology and Environment from the University of London (SOAS/Birkbeck) and is an Associate Senior Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology at Uppsala University (Sweden) examining the socio-environmental effects of shipbreaking in Bangladesh. Dr. Dewan is the author of Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh and co-editor of two special issues – "Fluid Dispossessions: Contested Waters in Capitalist Natures” (Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology) and "Scaled Ethnographies of Toxic Flows" (Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space).

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Climate Reductive Translations of Salinity: Understanding Cyclone-Tiger Prawn Linkages in Bangladesh’s Southwest Coastal Zone

Theorizing the Contemporary

Climate Reductive Translations of Salinity: Understanding Cyclone-Tiger Prawn Linkages in Bangladesh’s Southwest Coastal Zone

In 2014 and 2015, I conducted ethnographic fieldwork in an embanked floodplain, “Nodi” in southwest coastal Bangladesh. The Guardian article in Figure 1, sugges... More

Caring for Dying Canals

Theorizing the Contemporary

Caring for Dying Canals

Nodi (pseudonym) is a place surrounded by water: the freshwater tributary river of the Ganges and a tidal brackish river originating from the Bay of Bengal. I... More