Environmental Humanities in Central Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Relations Between Extraction and Interdependence
Redaktion: Féaux De La Croix, Jeanne; Penati, Beatrice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first collection to showcase the flourishing field of environmental humanities in Central Asia. It is an important resource for researchers and students of the environmental humanities, sustainability, history, politics, anthropology and geography of Asia, as well as Soviet and Post-Soviet studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000983197
• Artikelnr.: 68670586

Autorenporträt

Jeanne Féaux de la Croix is a social anthropologist based at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Beatrice Penati is a Lecturer in Russian and Eurasian history at the University of Liverpool, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Extractivism 1. There Used to Be Water: Soviet Water
Policies, Archaeologists and Ethnographers in Central Asia 2.
Administrations, Herders and Experts: Crossing Sources and Scales to Write
a Social History of Overgrazing in Soviet Kazakhstan (1960-1980) 3.
Environmental and Community Preservation in the face of Fossil Fuel
Development: The Case of Berezovka, Kazakhstan Part 2: Paternalism and
Protection 4. Saiga Antelopes (Saiga Tatarica) in the Environmental History
of the Qazaq Steppe and Desert 5. To Tame, Improve, Protect: Environmental
Discourse in Soviet Graphic Satire, 1950s-1991 6. What is in the Air?
Citizen Science, Eco-Internationalism and Urban Air Pollution in Bishkek
and Almaty Part 3: Enspirited Nature 7. Get Set! Horse Training as a
Discontinuous Action: A Central Asian Physiology that Forces Nature, but is
in Tune with the Seasons 8. Relating to People, Homeland and Environment
the Kyrgyz Way? A Dialogue Between Activism and Engaged Scholarship 9. The
Bee-Human: Imagining a New Qazaq identity in Oralkhan Bökei's Novel
Atau-Kere Part 4: Threats from Nature 10. Climate Disaster or Anticipated
Crisis? Ways of Knowing the Environment in Pre-Soviet Central Asia 11. The
Power of Apricot: Border Disputes, Land Scarcity and Mobility in the Isfara
River Basin 12. Water and Irrigation Arrangements in the Pamirs of
Tajikistan