- 248 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- 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