Sentient Ecologies

Xenophobic Imaginaries of Landscape

Alexandra Coțofană, Hikmet Kuran (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-752-6 (ISBN)

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Employing methodological perspectives from the fields of political geography, environmental studies, anthropology, and their cognate disciplines, this volume explores alternative logics of sentient landscapes as racist, xenophobic, and right-wing. While the field of sentient landscapes has gained critical attention, the literature rarely seems to question the intentionality of sentient landscapes, which are often romanticized as pure, good, and just, and perceived as protectors of those who are powerless, indigenous, and colonized. The book takes a new stance on sentient landscapes with the intention of dispelling the denial of “coevalness” represented by their scholarly romanticization.

Alexandra Coțofană is Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at Zayed University Abu Dhabi. Her publications include Religion and Magic in Socialist and Post-Socialist Contexts, in two volumes (2017, Columbia University Press, with James N. Nyce).

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Introduction

Alexandra Coțofană

Chapter 1. Adamastor unbound? Whiteness and landscape in post-1994 South Africa

Scott Burnett

Chapter 2. Part of the Landscape: Quebecois Nationalism and Indigenous Sentience

Philippe Blouin

Chapter 3. Ingrained Ontologies: How Romania’s Institutionalized Processes Teach Us to Think with Xenophobic Sentient Landscapes

Alexandra Coțofană

Chapter 4. Hostile Territory: Communal Politics and Sentient Landscape in Ladakh, Himalayan India

Callum Pearce

Chapter 5. Forests as the Sentient Bridge between German Landscape and Identity

Hikmet Kuran

Chapter 6. Unruly Landscapes: Contested Desert Imaginaries in Post- Franco Spain

Arvid van Dam

Chapter 7. Shinkoku: Reconsidering the Concept of Sentient Landscapes from Japan

David Malitz

Chapter 8. Imagining Chile’s South: The Making of a Phobic Landscape of Prestige in the Forests

Georg T. A. Krizmanics

Chapter 9. Can the Forests be Xenophobic? Migrant Pathways through Croatia and the Forest as Cover

Sarah Czerny, Marijana Hameršak, Iva Pleše and Sanja Bojanić

Chapter 10. Footsteps through the City: Encounters with Social Justice in Czech Urban Landscapes

Susanna Trnka

Epilogue: Why it is Vital to Scrutinize the Connection between Landscape, Sentience and Xenophobia in the Age of Deepening Crises of Democracy and Ecology?

Hikmet Kuran

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.2.2025
Reihe/Serie	Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-752-4 / 1805397524
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-752-6 / 9781805397526
Zustand	Neuware