Camelia Dewan
Associate professor at Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology; Cultural Anthropology; Employees
- E-mail:
- camelia.dewan@antro.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Thunbergsvägen 3 H
- Postal address:
- Box 631
751 26 Uppsala
Associate senior lecturer/Assistant Professor at Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology; Cultural Anthropology; Employees
- E-mail:
- camelia.dewan@antro.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Thunbergsvägen 3 H
- Postal address:
- Box 631
751 26 Uppsala

Publications
Selection of publications
Part of Social Analysis, p. 44-64, 2024
- DOI for Polluted Transformations of Fluid Commons in Bangladesh: Shipbreaking and ‘Enclosure by Contamination’
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Affective assemblages of kinship and single mothers' labour migration from a 'climate hotspot'
Part of Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2024
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Introduction to special issue: "Scaled ethnographies of toxic flows"
Part of Environment and Planning C, p. 5-12, 2024
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2024
Shipbreaking in Bangladesh: The Labor of Living with Toxic Development
2024
Global containments and local leakages: Structural violence and the toxic flows of shipbreaking
Part of Environment and Planning C, p. 80-101, 2024
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Part of The Journal of Peasant Studies, p. 2339-2360, 2023
- DOI for Climate refugees or labour migrants?: climate reductive translations of women's migration from coastal Bangladesh
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Part of Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies, p. 447-468, Routledge, 2023
- DOI for Climate refugees or labour migrants?: Climate reductive translations of women's migration from coastal Bangladesh
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Part of Ethnos, 2023
- DOI for Toxic Residues in Fluid Commons: More-Than-Economic Dispossession and Shipbreaking in Coastal Bangladesh
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'Fluid Dispossessions': Contested Waters in Capitalist Natures
Part of Ethnos, 2023
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Container Ships: Life Cycles, Chains of Value, and Labor in Maritime Logistics
Part of Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology, Oxford University Press, 2022
Part of Environmental Research Letters, 2022
- DOI for Overcoming challenges for implementing nature-based solutions in deltaic environments: insights from the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta in Bangladesh
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‘Climate Change as a Spice’: Brokering Environmental Knowledge in Bangladesh’s Development Industry
Part of Ethnos, p. 538-559, 2022
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Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh
University of Washington Press, 2021
Part of Masks of Authoritarianism, p. 155-169, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
Embanking the Sundarbans: The obfuscating discourse of climate change
Part of The Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate, p. 294-321, Berghahn Books, 2021
Living with toxic development: Shipbreaking in the industrializing zone of Sitakunda, Bangladesh
Part of Anthropology Today, p. 9-12, 2020
Impure Foods: Entanglements of Soil, Food, and Human Health in Bangladesh
Part of Gastronomica, p. 99-102, 2019
Part of Water international, p. 401-416, 2015
The imposition of participation?: The case of participatory water management in coastal Bangladesh
Part of Water Alternatives, p. 342-366, 2014
Recent publications
Lori Lee Oates and Sritama Chatterjee Speak with Camelia Dewan
Part of Atlantis, p. 138-142, 2025
Climate-induced redistribution of people is not inevitable
Part of Environmental Research Letters, 2025
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Part of Social Analysis, p. 44-64, 2024
- DOI for Polluted Transformations of Fluid Commons in Bangladesh: Shipbreaking and ‘Enclosure by Contamination’
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Affective assemblages of kinship and single mothers' labour migration from a 'climate hotspot'
Part of Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2024
- DOI for Affective assemblages of kinship and single mothers' labour migration from a 'climate hotspot'
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Introduction to special issue: "Scaled ethnographies of toxic flows"
Part of Environment and Planning C, p. 5-12, 2024
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- Download full text (pdf) of Introduction to special issue: "Scaled ethnographies of toxic flows"
All publications
Articles in journal
Lori Lee Oates and Sritama Chatterjee Speak with Camelia Dewan
Part of Atlantis, p. 138-142, 2025
Climate-induced redistribution of people is not inevitable
Part of Environmental Research Letters, 2025
- DOI for Climate-induced redistribution of people is not inevitable
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Part of Social Analysis, p. 44-64, 2024
- DOI for Polluted Transformations of Fluid Commons in Bangladesh: Shipbreaking and ‘Enclosure by Contamination’
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Affective assemblages of kinship and single mothers' labour migration from a 'climate hotspot'
Part of Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2024
- DOI for Affective assemblages of kinship and single mothers' labour migration from a 'climate hotspot'
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Introduction to special issue: "Scaled ethnographies of toxic flows"
Part of Environment and Planning C, p. 5-12, 2024
- DOI for Introduction to special issue: "Scaled ethnographies of toxic flows"
- Download full text (pdf) of Introduction to special issue: "Scaled ethnographies of toxic flows"
Global containments and local leakages: Structural violence and the toxic flows of shipbreaking
Part of Environment and Planning C, p. 80-101, 2024
- DOI for Global containments and local leakages: Structural violence and the toxic flows of shipbreaking
- Download full text (pdf) of Global containments and local leakages: Structural violence and the toxic flows of shipbreaking
Part of The Journal of Peasant Studies, p. 2339-2360, 2023
- DOI for Climate refugees or labour migrants?: climate reductive translations of women's migration from coastal Bangladesh
- Download full text (pdf) of Climate refugees or labour migrants?: climate reductive translations of women's migration from coastal Bangladesh
Part of Ethnos, 2023
- DOI for Toxic Residues in Fluid Commons: More-Than-Economic Dispossession and Shipbreaking in Coastal Bangladesh
- Download full text (pdf) of Toxic Residues in Fluid Commons: More-Than-Economic Dispossession and Shipbreaking in Coastal Bangladesh
'Fluid Dispossessions': Contested Waters in Capitalist Natures
Part of Ethnos, 2023
- DOI for 'Fluid Dispossessions': Contested Waters in Capitalist Natures
- Download full text (pdf) of 'Fluid Dispossessions': Contested Waters in Capitalist Natures
Part of Environmental Research Letters, 2022
- DOI for Overcoming challenges for implementing nature-based solutions in deltaic environments: insights from the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta in Bangladesh
- Download full text (pdf) of Overcoming challenges for implementing nature-based solutions in deltaic environments: insights from the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta in Bangladesh
‘Climate Change as a Spice’: Brokering Environmental Knowledge in Bangladesh’s Development Industry
Part of Ethnos, p. 538-559, 2022
- DOI for ‘Climate Change as a Spice’: Brokering Environmental Knowledge in Bangladesh’s Development Industry
- Download full text (pdf) of ‘Climate Change as a Spice’: Brokering Environmental Knowledge in Bangladesh’s Development Industry
Living with toxic development: Shipbreaking in the industrializing zone of Sitakunda, Bangladesh
Part of Anthropology Today, p. 9-12, 2020
Impure Foods: Entanglements of Soil, Food, and Human Health in Bangladesh
Part of Gastronomica, p. 99-102, 2019
Part of Water international, p. 401-416, 2015
The imposition of participation?: The case of participatory water management in coastal Bangladesh
Part of Water Alternatives, p. 342-366, 2014
Books
Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh
University of Washington Press, 2021
Chapters in book
Part of Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies, p. 447-468, Routledge, 2023
- DOI for Climate refugees or labour migrants?: Climate reductive translations of women's migration from coastal Bangladesh
- Download full text (pdf) of Climate refugees or labour migrants?: Climate reductive translations of women's migration from coastal Bangladesh
Container Ships: Life Cycles, Chains of Value, and Labor in Maritime Logistics
Part of Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology, Oxford University Press, 2022
Part of Masks of Authoritarianism, p. 155-169, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
Embanking the Sundarbans: The obfuscating discourse of climate change
Part of The Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate, p. 294-321, Berghahn Books, 2021
Part of Water Governance, p. 321-348, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013