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Environmental Humanities in Central Asia: Relations Between Extraction and Interdependence

Environmental Humanities in Central Asia: Relations Between Extraction and Interdependence

Féaux de la Croix, Jeanne
Penati, Beatrice

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Environmental Humanities

Literary CriticismEnvironmental Studies

ISBN10: 1032423412
ISBN13: 9781032423418
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 1 2023
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.37
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book is the first collection to showcase the flourishing field of environmental humanities in Central Asia. A region larger than Europe, Central Asia possesses an astounding range of environments, from deserts to glaciated peaks.

The volume brings into conversation scholarship from history to social anthropology, demonstrating the contribution that interdisciplinary and engaged research offers to many urgent issues in the region: from the history of conservationism to the tactics of environmental movements, from literary engagements with 'pure nature' to the impact of fossil fuel extraction. The collection focuses on the Central Asian republics of the former USSR, where a complex layering of nomadic and sedentary, Turkic and Persianate, Islamic and Soviet cultures ends up affecting human relations with distinct environments. Featuring state-of-the-art contributions, the book enquires into human-environment relations through a broad-brush typology of interactive modes: to extract, protect, enspirit and fear. Broadening the scope of analysis beyond a consideration of power, the authors bring into focus alternative local cosmologies and the unintended consequences of environmental policy. The volume highlights scholarship from within Central Asia as well as expertise elsewhere, offering readers diverse modes of knowledge-production in the environmental humanities.

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