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

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.

Author: Özge Yaka
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 07/25/2023
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780520393615
ISBN10: 0520393619
BISAC Categories:
- Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection | General
- Science | Environmental Science (see also Chemistry | Environmental)
- Social Science | Gender Studies