Sentient Ecologies

Alexandra Coțofană is Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at Zayed University Abu Dhabi. Her publications include Religion and Magic in Socialist and Post-Socialist Contexts, in two volumes (2017, Columbia University Press, with James N. Nyce).

“Enriched by contributions focused on different regions and blending historiographic, ethnographic and media materials, Coțofană and Kuran’s volume is a much-needed reminder about the troublesome connections linking theories of environmental sentience, landscape representations, and nationalism.” • Piergiorgio Di Giminiani, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile“This is a timely book that tackles some of the most divisive dynamics contemporary liberal democratic societies across the world are grappling with. It looks at exclusionary, xenophobic, and reactionary ideas and practices by focusing on the ways people engage with their natural surroundings.” • Annika Lems, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

• List of IllustrationsIntroductionAlexandra CoțofanăChapter 1. Adamastor unbound? Whiteness and landscape in post-1994 South AfricaScott BurnettChapter 2. Part of the Landscape: Quebecois Nationalism and Indigenous SentiencePhilippe BlouinChapter 3. Ingrained Ontologies: How Romania’s Institutionalized Processes Teach Us to Think with Xenophobic Sentient LandscapesAlexandra CoțofanăChapter 4. Hostile Territory: Communal Politics and Sentient Landscape in Ladakh, Himalayan IndiaCallum PearceChapter 5. Forests as the Sentient Bridge between German Landscape and IdentityHikmet KuranChapter 6. Unruly Landscapes: Contested Desert Imaginaries in Post- Franco SpainArvid van DamChapter 7. Shinkoku: Reconsidering the Concept of Sentient Landscapes from JapanDavid MalitzChapter 8. Imagining Chile’s South: The Making of a Phobic Landscape of Prestige in the ForestsGeorg T. A. KrizmanicsChapter 9. Can the Forests be Xenophobic? Migrant Pathways through Croatia and the Forest as CoverSarah Czerny, Marijana Hameršak, Iva Pleše and Sanja Bojanić Chapter 10. Footsteps through the City: Encounters with Social Justice in Czech Urban LandscapesSusanna TrnkaEpilogue: Why it is Vital to Scrutinize the Connection between Landscape, Sentience and Xenophobia in the Age of Deepening Crises of Democracy and Ecology?Hikmet KuranIndex