The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century
In this innovative, interdisciplinary work, Zozan Pehlivan presents a new environmental perspective on intercommunal conflict, rooting slow violence in socioeconomic shifts and climatic fluctuations. From the nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, recurrent and extreme climate disruptions became an underlying yet unacknowledged component of escalating conflict between Christian Armenian peasants and Muslim Kurdish pastoralists in Ottoman Kurdistan. By the eve of the First World War, the Ottoman state's shifting responses to these mounting tensions transformed the conflict into organized and state-sponsored violence. Pehlivan upends the 'desert-sown' thesis and establishes a new theoretical and conceptual framework drawing on climate science, agronomy, and zoology. From this alternative vantage point, Pehlivan examines the impact of climate on local communities, their responses and resilience strategies, arguing that nineteenth-century ecological change had a transformative and antagonistic impact on economy, state, and society.
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The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century
In this innovative, interdisciplinary work, Zozan Pehlivan presents a new environmental perspective on intercommunal conflict, rooting slow violence in socioeconomic shifts and climatic fluctuations. From the nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, recurrent and extreme climate disruptions became an underlying yet unacknowledged component of escalating conflict between Christian Armenian peasants and Muslim Kurdish pastoralists in Ottoman Kurdistan. By the eve of the First World War, the Ottoman state's shifting responses to these mounting tensions transformed the conflict into organized and state-sponsored violence. Pehlivan upends the 'desert-sown' thesis and establishes a new theoretical and conceptual framework drawing on climate science, agronomy, and zoology. From this alternative vantage point, Pehlivan examines the impact of climate on local communities, their responses and resilience strategies, arguing that nineteenth-century ecological change had a transformative and antagonistic impact on economy, state, and society.
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The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century

The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century

by Zozan Pehlivan
The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century

The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century

by Zozan Pehlivan

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In this innovative, interdisciplinary work, Zozan Pehlivan presents a new environmental perspective on intercommunal conflict, rooting slow violence in socioeconomic shifts and climatic fluctuations. From the nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, recurrent and extreme climate disruptions became an underlying yet unacknowledged component of escalating conflict between Christian Armenian peasants and Muslim Kurdish pastoralists in Ottoman Kurdistan. By the eve of the First World War, the Ottoman state's shifting responses to these mounting tensions transformed the conflict into organized and state-sponsored violence. Pehlivan upends the 'desert-sown' thesis and establishes a new theoretical and conceptual framework drawing on climate science, agronomy, and zoology. From this alternative vantage point, Pehlivan examines the impact of climate on local communities, their responses and resilience strategies, arguing that nineteenth-century ecological change had a transformative and antagonistic impact on economy, state, and society.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781009534994
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/05/2024
Series: Studies in Environment and History
Pages: 342
Product dimensions: 6.22(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.91(d)

About the Author

Zozan Pehlivan is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities.

Table of Contents

Introduction: global climate, local ecologies, and socio-political instability; 1. Kurdistan: a geographic and environmental threshold; 2. Four-legged capitalism: Kurdistan's political economy in mid-nineteenth century; 3. ''What will the end [of] this be'?': peasants and pastoralists face a decade of crisis; 4. The empire of priorities: Ottoman relief policies in the age of scarcity; 5. Environment and the state: from communal to state sponsor violence; An epilogue after the animals died.
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