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Author Wheeler, William

Title Environment and post-Soviet transformation in Kazakhstans Aral Sea region: sea changes. / William Wheeler

Imprint London : UCL Press, 2021.

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 265 pages)
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Economic exposures in Asia
Contents Intro -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliteration -- Glossary and Abbreviations -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1 The Aral Sea and the Modernisation of Central Asia: A Century of Catastrophes -- 2 Seeing Like a Bureaucrat: Problems of Living Standards and Employment -- 3 Ocean Fish, State Socialism and Nostalgia in Aral'sk -- 4 Rupture and Continuity in Aral Fishing Villages -- 5 From Soviet Ruins: Flounder, the Kökaral Dam and the Return of the Small Aral Sea -- 6 Zander and Social Change in Bögen
7 Aral'sk Today: Fish, Money, Ekologiia -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Sources for Fish Catches, 1905-80 -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover
Summary The Aral Sea is well known for its devastating regression over the second half of the twentieth century, and for its recent partial restoration. Environment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan's Aral Sea Region is the first book to explore what these monumental changes have meant to those living on the sea's shores. Following the fluctuating fortunes of the pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet fisheries, the book shows how the vast environmental changes the region has undergone cannot be disentangled from the transformations of Soviet socialism and postsocialism. This ethnographic perspective prompts a critical rethinking of the category of environmental disaster through which the region is predominantly known. Tracing how the sea's retreat and partial return have been apprehended by diverse local actors in the former port of Aral'sk and surrounding fishing villages, as well as by scientists, bureaucrats and international development workers, William Wheeler draws out the multiple meanings environmental change acquires within different contexts. This study of how people make their lives amidst overlapping ecological and political-economic upheavals is rich in ethnographic detail that is both rooted in Soviet legacies and alive to the new transnational connections that are reshaping the region. Offering a rigorous political ecology of Soviet socialism and after, the book is a major contribution to the nascent environmental anthropology of Central Asia. It will be of interest to environmental anthropologists, environmental historians, and scholars of all disciplines working on Central Asia and the former USSR.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Human ecology -- Aral Sea (Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan)
Economic development -- Aral Sea (Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan)
Aral Sea (Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan) -- Environmental conditions.
Écologie humaine -- Aral, Mer d' (Ouzbékistan et Kazakhstan)
Développement économique -- Aral, Mer d' (Ouzbékistan et Kazakhstan)
Aral, Mer d' (Ouzbékistan et Kazakhstan) -- Conditions environnementales.
Ecology
Economic development
Human ecology
Asia -- Aral Sea
Other Form: Print version: 9781800080331
Print version: 1800080344 9781800080348 1800080352 9781800080355 (OCoLC)1248693966
ISBN 9781800080362 (electronic bk.)
1800080360 (electronic bk.)
9781800080331 (electronic bk.)
1800080336 (electronic bk.)
1800080344
9781800080348
1800080352
9781800080355
Standard No. AU@ 000070135893
AU@ 000070100525
AU@ 000074042165
AU@ 000074157371

 
    
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