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.
Originalsprache | Englisch |
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Seiten (von - bis) | 71-87 |
Seitenumfang | 17 |
Fachzeitschrift | Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology |
Jahrgang | 2023 |
Ausgabenummer | 96 |
DOIs | |
Publikationsstatus | Veröffentlicht - Juni 2023 |
ÖFOS 2012
- 504017 Kulturanthropologie