Fighting for the River: Gender, Body, and Agency in Environmental Struggles
By Özge Yaka
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By Özge Yaka
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Fighting for the River portrays women's intimate, embodied relationships with river waters and explores how those relationships embolden local communities' resistance to private runoftheriver hydroelectric power plants in Turkey. Building on extensive ethnographic research, Özge Yaka develops a bodycentered, 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" fr...


