Fighting for the River

Gender, Body, and Agency in Environmental Struggles

Özge Yaka

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English

University of California Press
25 July 2023

Gender studies: women; Limnology (freshwater); Physical geography & topography; Conservation of the environment

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.

By: Özge Yaka
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9780520393608
ISBN 10: 0520393600
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 25 July 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents List of Illustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction: Gender, Body, and Relationality in the Struggle for the Environmental Commons 1. Saving “God’s Water”: Motivations and Dynamics of the Anti-HEPP Struggle 2. Resources, Livelihoods, Lifeworld: Linking Gender and Environment through the Lived Body 3. Sense, Affect, Emotion: Bodily Experiences of River Waters and Emergent Political Agency 4. Place, Body, Memory: River Waters and the Immanence of the Past in the Present 5. Ethics, Ontology, Relationality: Grassroots Environmentalism and the Notion of Socio-Ecological Justice Conclusion: Toward an Ecological Approach to Lifeworld, Sociality, and Agency Appendix Notes References Index

Özge Yaka is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Geographical Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin.

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

""Yaka’s empirical materials are a rich ground to explore a Turkish discursive environmental politics involving imaginaries and invocations of the law, the state, and the nation, and rural/urban distinctions, all refracted through gendered and class positionalities. The book also offers a nuanced theoretical elaboration of contemporary research on environmental justice, presenting a relational ontological approach that emphasizes the social, corporeal, and existential embeddedness of humans and nonhumans, thus going beyond frameworks of economic and cultural valuations and dichotomies of ecology versus environment. Overall, this monograph should be required reading for scholars of environmental governance and politics in Turkey and the Middle East and, beyond the region, environmental anthropologists, environmental sociologists, political ecologies, and scholars in the wider environmental humanities and social sciences."" * H-Net *