Attached, to go along with our reading of Roy's novel -
(1) Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor - read the Introduction, and if you would like to catch up on Arundhati Roy's activism post-The God of Small Things, take a look at Chapter 5, "Unimagined Communities: Megadams, Monumental Modernity, and Developmental Refugees"
(2) Pablo Mukherjee, Chapter 4, "The River and the Dance: Arundhati Roy" from his Postcolonial Environments - Pablo will swing by the seminar during our last half hour, so think about developing some questions for him about Roy and eco-critique