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Imaginative Geographies of Green : Difference, Postcoloniality, and Affect in environmental narratives in contemporary Turkey Harris, Leila
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Analyzing everyday environmental imaginaries from contemporary Turkey through the lenses of postcolonial, emotional-affective, and nature-society geographies, this article offers insights into shifting nature-society relations and possibilities. Based on a series of interviews and focus groups conducted in four sites (Istanbul, Ankara, Diyarbakir, and Sanliurfa), the concept of imaginative geographies of green is offered to highlight social and spatial difference as central to the articulation of green visions and movements. The research foregrounds several social and spatial gradients specific to the Turkish context, including East-West divides both within and beyond Turkey (i.e., Kurdish- Turkish and Eastern-Western Turkey, as well as notions of Turkishness and Europeanness ). The work also suggests that environmental imaginaries have deeply emotional, ambivalent, and power-laden associations. Apart from the implications of the work for enriched understandings of emergent environmental possibilities in this context, the conclusion also touches on ramifications for EU accession debates as well as new directions for work on environmental citizenship and movements in the global South.
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Imaginative Geographies of Green : Difference, Postcoloniality, and Affect in environmental narratives in contemporary Turkey
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2014
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Analyzing everyday environmental imaginaries from contemporary Turkey through the
lenses of postcolonial, emotional-affective, and nature-society geographies, this article
offers insights into shifting nature-society relations and possibilities. Based on a series
of interviews and focus groups conducted in four sites (Istanbul, Ankara, Diyarbakir, and
Sanliurfa), the concept of imaginative geographies of green is offered to highlight social
and spatial difference as central to the articulation of green visions and movements.
The research foregrounds several social and spatial gradients specific to the Turkish
context, including East-West divides both within and beyond Turkey (i.e., Kurdish-
Turkish and Eastern-Western Turkey, as well as notions of Turkishness and
Europeanness ). The work also suggests that environmental imaginaries have deeply
emotional, ambivalent, and power-laden associations. Apart from the implications of the
work for enriched understandings of emergent environmental possibilities in this
context, the conclusion also touches on ramifications for EU accession debates as well
as new directions for work on environmental citizenship and movements in the global
South.
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eng
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2017-05-30
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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10.14288/1.0347674
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Harris, L. M. (2014). Imaginative geographies of green: difference, postcoloniality, and affect in environmental narratives in contemporary Turkey. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 104(4), 801-815.
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10.1080/00045608.2014.892356
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Reviewed
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Faculty
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Annals of the Association of American Geographers: Taylor & Francis Group
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