Özge Yaka
Environmental activist and author of 'Fighting for the River: Gender, Body, and Agency in Environmental Struggles'
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Oct 23, 2023 • 55min
Özge Yaka, "Fighting for the River: Gender, Body, and Agency in Environmental Struggles" (U California Press, 2023)
Özge Yaka, environmental activist, discusses her book on gender, body, and agency in environmental struggles. Topics include women's relationships with river waters, resistance to hydroelectric power plants, body-centered approach to activism, and human-nonhuman relationality for socio-ecological justice.
Oct 23, 2023 • 55min
Özge Yaka, "Fighting for the River: Gender, Body, and Agency in Environmental Struggles" (U California Press, 2023)
Özge Yaka, environmental activist and author of 'Fighting for the River: Gender, Body, and Agency in Environmental Struggles', discusses women's intimate relationship with river waters in Turkey. She explores the connection between lived experience and nonhuman environments, treating bodily senses and affects as media of political agency. The podcast delves into gendered sensory memory, the significance of nonhuman entities in social life, triads as a methodological tool for analyzing environmental struggles, and the book's emphasis on coexistence.
