Fighting for the river : gender, body and agency in environmental struggles / Ozge Yaka.
| Author/creator | Yaka, Özge, 1980- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023] |
| Copyright Date | 2023 |
| Description | xvi, 226 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Abstract | "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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Yaka, Ozge, 1980- Fighting for the river Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023] 9780520393622 |
| LCCN | 2023006212 |
| ISBN | 9780520393615 |
| ISBN | 9780520393608 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 0520393600 |
| ISBN | 0520393619 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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