Guha influenced environmental social sciences years before ecocriticism absorbed his critique.

Evidence

Together Sauer, from within the American environmental movement, and Guha, from outside it, offer a profound account of deep ecology’s disfiguring legacy. Their critiques help clarify why postcolonial and environmental studies have, at least in the literary domain, led such largely parallel lives. Guha’s writings sharply impacted debates in environmental history, the environmental social sciences, and the biological sciences, but his ideas had very little resonance within ecocriticism, and then only belatedly. For ecocriticism only began to cohere as a field in the mid-1990s (with the appearance of Lawrence Buell’s The Environmental Imagination in 1995 and Cheryl Glotfelty and Harold Fromm’s Ecocritical Reader in 1996), years after Guha’s essay had sparked controversy in other disciplines. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 782

Categorization

• XREF: Useful institutional genealogy for the polyad’s core question of why justice-oriented environmental scholarship lagged in some fields but not others. — connects to: The environmentalism of the poor was recognized by neighboring fields before literary ecocriticism — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 716

Broader Connections

• The environmentalism of the poor was recognized by neighboring fields before literary ecocriticism #corroborates (0.95) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 716