The Political Ecology of Violence

Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century

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ID23428265
AuthorsZozan Pehlivan (0000-0001-6471-7631, University of Minnesota System, corresponding author)
Year2024
Publication date2024-11-30
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenuePolitical Ecology of Violence (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781009535021
OpenAlexW4404580943
ISBN9781009535021
Open LibraryOL57541832M
LanguageEN
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In this innovative, interdisciplinary work, Zozan Pehlivan presents a new environmental perspective on inter-communal conflict, rooting slow violence in socio-economic shifts and climatic fluctuations. From the nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, recurrent and extreme climate disruptions became an underlying yet unacknowledged component of escalating conflict between Christian Armenian peasants and Muslim Kurdish pastoralists in Ottoman Kurdistan. By the eve of the First World War, the Ottoman state's shifting responses to these mounting tensions transformed the conflict into organized and state-sponsored violence. Pehlivan upends the 'desert-sown' thesis, and establishes a new theoretical and conceptual framework drawing on climate science, agronomy, and zoology. From this alternative vantage point, Pehlivan examines the impact of climate on local communities, their responses and resilience strategies, arguing that nineteenth-century ecological change had a transformative and antagonistic impact on economy, state and society.

Ancient history · Armenian · Environmental ethics · Geography · Livestock · Pastoralism · Political ecology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Psychological resilience · Sociology · State (computer science) · Transformative learning · Ecology · History · Law · Transboundary Water Resource Management

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