Dr. Özge Yaka (Institut für Geographische Wissenschaften)

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.

Hybrid-Veranstaltung

Teilnahme unter: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin/j.php?MTID=m57037c00cd7782878d2e42d8edb723e7
Meeting-Kennnummer (Zugriffscode): 2733 100 3183
Meeting Passwort: 3bSz9i3mK3C

Oder im Raum KL 29/135, Freie Universität Berlin, Rost- und Silberlaube