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SUMMARY:“The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Las
t Ottoman Century”
DESCRIPTION:\nFrom the publisher:\n\n“In this innovative\, interdiscipli
nary work\, Zozan Pehlivan presents a new environmental perspective on i
ntercommunal conflict\, rooting slow violence in socioeconomic shifts an
d climatic fluctuations. From the nineteenth to the early twentieth cent
uries\, recurrent and extreme climate disruptions became an underlying y
et unacknowledged component of escalating conflict between Christian Arm
enian 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 s
tate-sponsored violence. Pehlivan upends the 'desert-sown' thesis and es
tablishes 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 res
ponses and resilience strategies\, arguing that nineteenth-century ecolo
gical change had a transformative and antagonistic impact on economy\, s
tate\, and society.”\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/even
t/political-ecology-of-violence/
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her:
“In this innovative, interdisciplinary work, Zozan Pehlivan p
resents a new environmental perspective on intercommunal conflict, rooti
ng slow violence in socioeconomic 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 Kurd
ish pastoralists in Ottoman Kurdistan. By the eve of the First World War
, the Ottoman state's shifting responses to these mounting tensions tran
sformed the conflict into organized and state-sponsored violence. Pehliv
an 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 cl
imate on local communities, their responses and resilience strategies, a
rguing that nineteenth-century ecological change had a transformative an
d antagonistic impact on economy, state, and society.”
For more de
tails: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/political-ecology-of-violence/
LOCATION:102 Weaver Building
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