Entangled Lives: A Posthuman Ecologies in Amitav Ghosh’s Select Novels

Contemporary environmental crises manifesting as climate change,
biodiversity loss, rising sea levels, and ecological precarity have profoundly
unsettled anthropocentric frameworks that position humans as sovereign
masters of nature. Such frameworks, rooted in Enlightenment humanism
and reinforced by colonial and capitalist modes of extraction, have
interdependent relationships that constitute planetary life. In response,
shift toward posthumanism, which challenges human exceptionalism
human and nonhuman actors. Within this intellectual context, posthuman
ecological thought has emerged as a critical framework for understanding
environmental crises not as isolated human failures but as outcomes of
deeply entangled historical, material, and multispecies processes.