Living with Oil & Coal explores the layered and lived experiences of India’s northeast tribal and Indigenous peoples who find themselves entangled in coal and oil production. It is a story of community conflict, citizenship, and ultimately state formation.

At IJmuiden, where capitalist infrastructure encounters and encloses the subsurface turbulence of the estuary, brackishness appears as an ecological disjuncture in which the material contradictions of transition policy and the real abstractions of logistical value are rendered startlingly concrete.

Hudani demonstrates the importance of theorizing repair, enabling us to spatialize a Levinasian ethics of the neighbor, in the aftermath of traumatic events ranging from mass killings to large-scale dispossession.