Description
| Product ID: | 9780520393615 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Fighting for the River |
| Subtitle: | Gender, Body, and Agency in Environmental Struggles |
| Authors: | Author: Ozge Yaka |
| Page Count: | 248 |
| Subjects: | Gender studies: women and girls, Gender studies: women, Limnology (inland waters), Physical geography and topography, Conservation of the environment, Limnology (freshwater), Physical geography & topography, Conservation of the environment, Turkey |
| Description: | 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. |
| Imprint Name: | University of California Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of California Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-07-25 |
