Fighting for the river : gender, body and agency in environmental struggles / Özge Yaka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yaka, Özge, 1980- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women environmentalists--Turkey.

Women environmentalists.

Ecofeminism--Turkey.

Ecofeminism.

Environmentalism--Turkey.

Environmentalism.

Hydroelectric power plants--Environmental aspects--Turkey.

Hydroelectric power plants.

Rivers--Environmental aspects--Turkey.

Rivers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]

Summary:

"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, Ozge 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 are 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : gender, body, and relationality in the struggle for the environmental commons

Saving "god's water" : motivations and dynamics of the anti-HEPP struggle

Resources, livelihoods, and the lifeworld : linking gender and environment through the lived body

Sense, affect, emotion: bodily experiences of river waters and emergent political agency

Place, body, and memory : river waters and the immanence of the past in the present

Ethics, ontology, relationality : grassroots environmentalism and the notion socio-ecological justice

Conclusion : Toward an ecological approach to lifeworld, sociality, and agency.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520393622

0520393627

OCLC:

1382342047