Beings Seen and Unseen – A Conversation with Amitav Ghosh

In his book The Nutmeg’s Curse, scholar Amitav Ghosh writes, “the
planet will never come alive for you unless your songs and stories
give life to all the beings seen and unseen that inhabit a living
Earth,”—seeding a shift in consciousness begins with the stories we
tell. In this wide-ranging interview from our archives, Amitav
explores the themes of his recent work, including the insidious
philosophy that the Earth is inert and how this belief paved the
way for the implementation of violent projects around the globe,
such as the genocide of Indigenous people and the monolith of
capitalism. Unpacking the rise and legacy of an ideology of
mastery, Amitav asks, if such conquests were made possible by the
narrative of an inanimate Earth, what stories can now be imagined
to help us recognize the world as sacred and alive?  Read the
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