Whose death, whose eco-revival? Filling in while emptying out the depopulated Balkan Mountains

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Abstract

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.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)71-87
Seitenumfang17
FachzeitschriftFocaal: European Journal of Anthropology
Jahrgang2023
Ausgabenummer96
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Juni 2023

ÖFOS 2012

  • 504017 Kulturanthropologie

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