Fighting for the River portrays women's intimate, embodied relationships with river waters and explores how those relationships embolden local communities' resistance to private runoftheriver hydroelectric power plants in Turkey. Building on extensive ethnographic research, Özge Yaka develops a bodycentered, 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 morethanhuman 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 morethanhuman connectivity and political agency. Analyzing local environmental struggles as struggles for coexistence, Yaka frames humannonhuman relationality as a matter of socioecological justice.
Fighting for the River portrays women's intimate, embodied relationships with river waters and explores how those relationships embolden local communities' resistance to private runoftheriver hydroelectric power plants in Turkey. Building on extensive ethnographic research, Özge Yaka develops a bodycentered, 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 morethanhuman 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 morethanhuman connectivity and political agency. Analyzing local environmental struggles as struggles for coexistence, Yaka frames humannonhuman relationality as a matter of socioecological justice.
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