This commentary responds to Mahanty et al.'s article, which offers ‘rupture’ as an alternative analytic to ‘the Anthropocene’. I apply this concept to fieldwork in Kalimpong, a district of the Indian state of West Bengal in the eastern Himalayas, to highlight the concept's utility for attending to the complexity of environmental crisis.
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