Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 490 g
Reihe: Critical Approaches to Southeast Europe: A Cross-Disciplinary Series - CEU Press
A Bosnian City in Love with the River
Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 490 g
Reihe: Critical Approaches to Southeast Europe: A Cross-Disciplinary Series - CEU Press
ISBN: 978-963-386-768-6
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
Water potential is a significant natural wealth of most parts of the Balkans, and it has given rise to a surge in hydropower investments unparalleled across Europe. As part of the process, a dam was planned to be built on the Una River, which runs through the Bosnian town of Bihac. This prospect alarmed the city’s residents, culminating in a protest in 2015. The book begins with this protest, and it explores how the threat of dam construction transformed the seemingly apolitical love of the river into a powerful political force around which thousands of people mobilized: riverine citizenship.
The book is based on interviews with participants, archival research, and over twenty years of ethnographic research. Azra Hromadžic 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.
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Acknowledgements, Introduction, Chapter 1. The Una River Emeralds: Producing Ecologically Conscious Children in Socialist Yugoslavia, Chapter 2. Traversing the Una: Riverine Ethnography and the Senses, Chapter 3. Life in the Age of Death: War and the River, Chapter 4. Ne damo Unu! The Making of Riverine Citizens, Chapter 5. I Love the Una: On Love and Politics in Multispecies Relationships, Chapter 6. This tourism will kill us all!: Eco-tourism, a Fragmented State, and the Slow Death of the River, Bibliography Index
