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Whose death, whose eco-revival? Filling in while emptying out the depopulated Balkan Mountains
- Autor(en)
- Ivan Rajkovic
- Abstrakt
When environmental activists in Serbia encountered decarbonization in form of predatory hydropower, they launched a massive campaign against an actual degrowth that plagued their depopulating lands. This bridging of environmental and reproductive concerns helped to create a broad ecopopulist alliance that saved the local rivers, and yet it sneaked in another quasi-uni-versalist subject—urban, middle-aged, and male—who assumed a central role in the countryside eco-revival. As they “bring life back” to the “dying” Balkan Mountains, I argue, revivers also erase the ways of life that still thrive in their aging abodes. Such duality reveals emptiness as a problem space that is necropolitical inasmuch as it is vitalist. To direct the further flow of life means to decide who can survive—and who is anyhow destined to expire.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
- Journal
- Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology
- Band
- 2023
- Seiten
- 71-87
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 17
- ISSN
- 0920-1297
- Publikationsdatum
- 06-2023
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 504017 Kulturanthropologie
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Anthropology
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- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/whose-death-whose-ecorevival-filling-in-while-emptying-out-the-depopulated-balkan-mountains(ede747c1-0829-4a6a-bb67-3966c96d28d0).html