Sentient ecologies : xenophobic imaginaries of landscape / edited by Alexandra Coțofană and Hikmet Kuran.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cotofana, Alexandra, editor.

Kuran, Hikmet, editor.

Knowledge Unlatched, Funder.

Series:

Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology Series

Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology ; 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental racism.

Environmental degradation--Social aspects.

Environmental degradation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Sentient Ecologies

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Berghahn Books, 2022.

Language Note:

eng

Summary:

"Employing methodological perspectives from the fields of political geography, environmental studies, anthropology, and their cognate disciplines, this volume explores alternative logics of sentient landscapes as racist, xenophobic, and right-wing. While the field of sentient landscapes has gained critical attention, the literature rarely seems to question the intentionality of sentient landscapes, which are often romanticized as pure, good, and just, and perceived as protectors of those who are powerless, indigenous, and colonized. The book takes a new stance on sentient landscapes with the intention of dispelling the denial of "coevalness" represented by their scholarly romanticization"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

List of Illustrations

Introduction / Alexandra Cotofana

Chapter 1. Adamastor unbound? Whiteness and landscape in post-1994 South Africa / Scott Burnett

Chapter 2. Part of the Landscape: Quebecois Nationalism and Indigenous Sentience / Philippe Blouin

Chapter 3. Ingrained Ontologies: How Romania's Institutionalized Processes Teach Us to Think with Xenophobic Sentient Landscapes / Alexandra Cotofana

Chapter 4. Hostile Territory: Communal Politics and Sentient Landscape in Ladakh, Himalayan India / Callum Pearce

Chapter 5. Forests as the Sentient Bridge between German Landscape and Identity / Hikmet Kuran

Chapter 6. Unruly Landscapes: Contested Desert Imaginaries in Post- Franco Spain / Arvid van Dam

Chapter 7. Shinkoku: Reconsidering the Concept of Sentient Landscapes from Japan / David Malitz

Chapter 8. Imagining Chile's South: The Making of a Phobic Landscape of Prestige in the Forests / Georg T. A. Krizmanics

Chapter 9. Can the Forests be Xenophobic? Migrant Pathways through Croatia and the Forest as Cover / Sarah Czerny, Marijana Hamersak, Iva Plese and Sanja Bojanic

Chapter 10. Footsteps through the City: Encounters with Social Justice in Czech Urban Landscapes / Susanna Trnka

Epilogue: Why it is Vital to Scrutinize the Connection between Landscape, Sentience and Xenophobia in the Age of Deepening Crises of Democracy and Ecology? / Hikmet Kuran

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on print version of record.

ISBN:

9781800737662

1800737661

OCLC:

1354535728

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access