Fighting for the River: Gender, Body, and Agency in Environmental Struggles Yaka zge
Fighting for the River: Gender, Body, and Agency in Environmental Struggles Yaka zge Fighting for the River portrays women's intimate, embodied relationships with river waters and explores how those…
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Fighting for the River: Gender, Body, and Agency in Environmental Struggles Yaka zge
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. 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. Building on extensive ethnographic research, zge Yaka develops a body-centered, phenomenological approach to women's environmental activism and combines it with a relational ontological perspective.
Analyzing local 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.
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