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On the one hand, environmental crisis is a global phenomenon. Since climate change, environmental migration and what McKibben has dubbed the "end of nature" (1989) cannot be restricted by national borders, ecocritical thinking tends to be global in its perspective too. [...]by identifying non-Western natural sites as worthy of preservation, Western environmentalism perpetuates the notion of postcolonial societies as being ?under-developed' or ?developing'. [...]it integrates the natural world into the framework of Western control and nourishes the myth of ?developmentalism': "Development, [...] is as much a mechanism of discursive control as an agency of economic management, based on the assumption that western values it inculcates are indisputably the right ones" (Huggan and Tiffin 2010: 28). [...]Edward Said maintains that "there is no such thing as a delivered presence" (1991: 21) -in the postcolonial context, mimetic representation is always a form of ?worlding'. [...]the belief in the mimetic qualities of nature writing may not only lead to a "surfeit of kitsch" (Phillips 2003: 164); in the context of (post)colonialism, it was and is part of the repressive power of the imperialist centre (see also Bhabha 1987). Sen, who repeatedly called for such a convergence, writes that respective works of literature "[challenge] the efficacy of discussing postcolonial environmentalism in isolation from the developmental policies being enacted in the Sundarbans" (2009: 374). Since Sen uses The Hungry Tide as a case study (hence the reference to the Sundarbans), his contextualising of developmentalist issues is particularly interesting for this study.