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Özge Yaka (Institut für Geographische Wissenschaften)

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.

Hybrid-Veranstaltung
Teilnahme unter: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin/j.php?MTID=mcc9b2e426ce66e25e1491b19045bb185
Oder im Raum K 31/102, Freie Universität Berlin, Rostlaube