Fighting for the River

Fighting for the River Gender, Body, and Agency in Environmental Struggles

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780520393615
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 304.2082
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 248
Weight: 358g
Height: 152mm
Width: 228mm
Spine width: 15mm