Transforming Socio-Natures in Turkey: Landscapes, State and Environmental Movements

ISBN-13: 9780367785741 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 226 str.

Onur İnal; Ethemcan Turhan

Opis

This book is an exploration of the environmental makings and contested historical trajectories of environmental change in Turkey.

Spis treści

1. Socio-Natures on The Edge: Landscapes, State and Movements in Turkey Part I Landscapes on the Edge  2. The Soils of Turkey: Nature, Science, and Crisis (1930-1960) 3. A Technopolitical Frontier: The Keban Dam Project and Southeastern Anatolia  4. From Imperial Frontier to National Heartland: Environmental History of Turkey’s Nation-Building in Its European Province of Thrace, 1920-1940  Part II State and Capital on the Edge  5. Security, Dispossession, and Industrial Meat Production in Turkey  6. Sediment in Reservoirs: A History of Dams and Forestry in Turkey  7. Informalization of Waste Regimes: The Entanglement of Urbanization, Poverty and Waste in Ankara  Part III Movements on the Edge  8. Contextualizing the Rise of Environmental Movements in Turkey: Two Instances of Anti-Gold Mining Resistance  9. Coal, Ash, and Other Tales: The Making and Remaking of the Anti-Coal Movement in Aliağa, Turkey  10. Moving Stills: The Idea of Nature in New Turkish Cinema  Epilogue

O autorze

Onur İnal is a researcher based in the Near Eastern Studies Department, University of Vienna, Austria.

Ethemcan Turhan is a researcher based in the Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Sweden.