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Xenophobic Mountains

Landscape Sentience Reconsidered in the Romanian Carpathians

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Palgrave Macmillan


Paru le : 2022-09-19



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This book, based on ethnographic research in Romania, traces the ontological red lines that form a world in which xenophobic landscapes are possible. The last couple hundred years in Romania’s history have been marked by change of political regimes, but this manuscript pays equal attention to an important continuity in Romania’s ontological world: its understanding of the landscape, and the relationship between Romanian people and their land. From political discourses to children’s books, to literature, and explanations found for everyday events, the book follows the ways in which the landscape of Romania has been understood as a sentient being imbued with willpower and ability to act on the world. The sentience specific to Romania’s landscape is characterized by xenophobia—a fear and distrust of ethno-religious others—that has been historically interpreted by Romanians as manifesting through acts of violence enacted by the landscape towards various groups of humans understood as dangerous to the country’s unity.


The novelty of this book lies in the fact that it is an in-depth analysis of an ontological world in which sentient landscapes are de-romanticized and presented in their uncomfortable complexity. The concept of sentient xenophobic mountains can add a great deal to the current literature on the ontological turn and ontological multiplicities, by questioning binaries like colonized/colonizer, indigenous/colonial, sentient landscape/industrial superpower. Romania’s history makes it a good case study for this exercise, as the country has been at the margins of empires, both desired because of its natural resources and rejected because of the perceived inferiority of its people, both racialized and racist, both neoliberal and imagining absolute sovereignty. 
Pages
140 pages
Collection
n.c
Parution
2022-09-19
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9783031131110
EAN PDF
9783031131127
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
1
Nombre pages imprimables
14
Taille du fichier
9288 Ko
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47,46 €
EAN EPUB
9783031131127
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
1
Nombre pages imprimables
14
Taille du fichier
51087 Ko
Ce livre est accessible aux handicaps Voir les informations sur l'accessibilité
Prix
47,46 €
Alexandra Cotofana is Assistant Professor in Anthropology at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

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