Fighting for the River: Gender, Body, and Agency in Environmental Struggles (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520393615)

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, ﾖzge 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.

Author: ﾖzge Yaka
ISBN-10: 0520393619
ISBN-13: 9780520393615
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 07/25/2023
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d