Ecology, Space, and Identity in the Eurasian Region

Between the Local and the Global

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This book brings together the postcolonial and postsocialist conditions of the post-Soviet space and the Indian subcontinent through the study of human–nature relationships. These two regions are not only geographically entangled through Eurasia but are also characterized by hybrid modernization trajectories shaped by diverse socio-political responses to Western modernity and the blending of Western and non-Western ideas. Contemporary environmental debates, practices, and discourses beyond the Western liberal model are explored, with a focus on local resistance and adaptation, state interventions, and resource exploitation in the Eurasian space.The chapters in this volume examine grassroots responses to environmental disruptions caused by modernizing legacies and ongoing extractive practices. It is demonstrated that ways of relating to the natural environment and space in the Eurasian region are deeply intertwined with questions of identity, which, in turn, reshape social life and communities’ political engagement with the state. The transformative role of ecology, space, and identity in reshaping the social and political arenas in these regions is tracked, offering insights into the complex interplay between modernization, environmental change, and human agency.This book is an essential read for students and scholars of environmental studies, postcolonial studies, postsocialist studies, geography, anthropology, and political science. It is also relevant to interdisciplinary researchers interested in human–nature relationships, identity politics, and the socio-political dynamics of the Eurasian region.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Globalizations.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-08-17
Mått189 x 246 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRethinking Globalizations
Antal sidor120
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781041311799

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Lili Di Puppo is Postdoctoral Researcher at KU Leuven, Belgium, and Research Associate on the project “Muslims, the Secular, and Existential Risk” at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her research spans anthropology of religion, existential risks, human–nature relations, and sacred sites. She has held positions at the University of Helsinki, FAU Erlangen–Nürnberg, and the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. She has published special issues on Muslim ontologies and Islam in Russia and co-edited Peripheral Methodologies: Unlearning, Not-Knowing and Ethnographic Limits (Routledge, 2021). She convenes the EASA network “Muslim Worlds.”Arnab Roy Chowdhury is Associate Professor in the School of Sociology at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) University, Moscow, in the Russian Federation. Prior to this he was an Assistant Professor in the Public Policy and Management Group at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIMC). He received his PhD in Sociology from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2014. His research and teaching interests include Forced Migration and Refugee Studies, Social Movements Studies, Ethnicity and Nationalism, Natural Resources Extraction and Labour, and Postcolonial & Subaltern Studies.

Introduction: Environment, space, and identity in the Eurasian region 1. Indigenous connections with the resourcescape in the Russian North and Siberia 2. Resisting ‘extractive capital’: a comparative study of two adivasi anti-mining movements in postcolonial (and neoliberal) India 3. ‘The past is becoming the future’: Genghis Khan the environmentalist and the discourses of modernity and legacy concerning proper waste disposal in post-socialist Mongolia 4. Engaging the postcolonial state: dam, forced relocation, and the Bhil Adivasi Group of the Narmada River Valley, India 5. Between remembrance and forgetfulness: heart perception, oneness and the human-landscape relationship in a Bashkir Sufi circle 6. Between land and the market: farmers’ mobilizations in Chhattisgarh and western Uttar Pradesh 7. Desert geographies: solar energy governance for just transitions