Environmental Humanities in Central Asia

Auteur

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.

Texte du rabat

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.

Contenu

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