Fighting for the River (eBook)

Gender, Body, and Agency in Environmental Struggles

Özge Yaka (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
248 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39362-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Fighting for the River portrays women's intimate, embodied relationships with river waters and explores how those relationships embolden local communities' resistance to private run-of-the-river hydroelectric power plants in Turkey. Building on extensive ethnographic research, Özge Yaka develops a body-centered, phenomenological approach to women's environmental activism and combines it with a relational ontological perspective. In this way, the book pushes beyond the "natural resources" frame to demonstrate how our corporeal connection to nonhuman entities is constitutive of our more-than-human lifeworld. Fighting for the River takes the human body as a starting point to explore the connection between lived experience and nonhuman environments, treating bodily senses and affects as the media of more-than-human connectivity and political agency. Analyzing local environmental struggles as struggles for coexistence, Yaka frames human-nonhuman relationality as a matter of socio-ecological justice.

Inhalt

Contents

List of Illustrations 
Abbreviations 
Acknowledgments 

Introduction: Gender, Body, and Relationality in
the Struggle for the Environmental Commons 

1. Saving “God’s Water”: Motivations and Dynamics of the Anti-HEPP Struggle 
2. Resources, Livelihoods, Lifeworld: Linking Gender and Environment through the Lived Body 
3. Sense, Affect, Emotion: Bodily Experiences of River Waters and Emergent Political Agency 
4. Place, Body, Memory: River Waters and the Immanence of the Past in the Present 
5. Ethics, Ontology, Relationality: Grassroots Environmentalism and the Notion of 
Socio-Ecological Justice
Conclusion: Toward an Ecological Approach to Lifeworld, Sociality, and Agency 

Appendix 
Notes 
References 
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.8.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Affect • antihydropower struggles • body centered framework • ecofeminism • Emotions • environmental justice • feminist theory • Indigenous • movements • Nonhuman • Phenomenology • Political Ecology • Riverside communities • Tigris and Euphrates river basins • turkish river dams
• ISBN-10: 0-520-39362-7 / 0520393627
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-39362-2 / 9780520393622