Fighting for the River : Gender, Body, and Agency in Environmental Struggles Paperback / softback
by Ozge Yaka
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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:248 pages, 3 b-w illustrations; 2 maps; 1 table
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:25/07/2023
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- ISBN:9780520393615
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:248 pages, 3 b-w illustrations; 2 maps; 1 table
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:25/07/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520393615