Riverine Citizenship
Central European University Press (Verlag)
978-963-386-768-6 (ISBN)
The book is based on interviews with participants, archival research, and over twenty years of ethnographic research. Azra Hromadžić focuses on the tension between ecological sustainability efforts in favor of renewable energy, on the one hand, and citizens’ historically shaped, deeply-felt, love for the river, on the other. She shows how the language and promises of green transition can mask the forces of capitalist accumulation that drive this change — whether in the form of building hydroelectric dams or promoting eco-tourism — and thus set in motion another cycle of environmental degradation, social dispossession, and economic exploitation.
Azra Hromadžić is Associate Professor and Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professors of Teaching Excellence at Syracuse University.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Riverine Citizenship: A Lived, Place-based Form of Politics
Thinking River as an Ethnographic Subject
The Una and its People
The Book’s Flow
Chapter 1. The Una River Emeralds: Producing Ecologically Conscious Children in Socialist Yugoslavia
Introduction
Thinking about Children, Socialism, and Nature
The Una River Emeralds and “Its” Children
War, Children, and Ecology
Reverberations: Contemporary Transformations
Conclusion
Chapter 2. Traversing the Una: Riverine Ethnography and the Senses
Introduction
Thinking about Senses
Words and Images
Sound Vibrations of the Una
Perceiving Odors
The River’s Structure
The Una’s Subterranean World
Conclusion
Chapter 3. Life in the Age of Death: War and the River
Theoretical Inspirations
Focusing on Bihać and the Una under Siege
“We Were Naked in front of Each Other”
The Return to Jotanovi
Conclusion
Chapter 4. “Ne damo Unu!” The Making of Riverine Citizens
Introduction
Thinking Eco-Populism
Diverting Water and the Rise of Riverine Activism
Abundance of Water and Excess of Suspicion
Watershed: From Riverine Activism to Eco-populism
“Ne Damo Unu!!!”: The Making of Riverine Citizens
Conclusions
Chapter 5. I Love the Una: On Love and Politics in Multispecies Relationships
Introduction
Thinking About Multispecies Love, Politics, and Justice
A City in Love with the River
Riverine Love: Heteronormativity, Romance, and Seduction
Riverine Love as a Political Force
Conclusion
Chapter 6. “This tourism will kill us all!”: Eco-tourism, a Fragmented State, and the Slow Death of the River
Introduction
Una National Park: The Land of Water Magic
“This tourism will kill us all!”
Fragmented State, Betonizacija, and Elastic Borders
Polluted Waters and Invasive Species
The Una River Emeralds’ Children
Conclusion
Conclusion. In the end…
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.08.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Critical Approaches to Southeast Europe: A Cross-Disciplinary Series |
| Zusatzinfo | 16 Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Budapest |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 479 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 963-386-768-1 / 9633867681 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-963-386-768-6 / 9789633867686 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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