Salt in the wound: embodied everyday adaptations to salinity intrusion in the Sundarbans

The relationship between everyday lives and the climate changed present is layered, complex, deeply embedded in social context. In Sundarban region of India Bangladesh, entangled web development, anthropogenic change, so-called change adaptation projects (such as concrete embankments, hardening coastlines, brackish aquaculture) have interrupted natural processes caused environmental degradation that negatively impacts those who live there. Scholars called for better frameworks to link struggles macro-level development. Building on a long-term ethnographic engagement existing theories adaptations I utilize salinity intrusion case study showcasing complicated interlinkages development daily life. argue there are three interlinked increases accumulations salt: naturally occurring, exacerbated by capitalism change. Residents describe consequences they materialize their bodies, evidence external imposition lives. although cause transformation, it interacts with local conditions diffuse ways science needs pay attention to. Looking at causes tandem allows us see past hegemonic thought makes way understanding outside constraints neoliberal paradigms.