Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe.

This volume draws together essays by early-career academic researchers from across eastern Europe. Engaging with the critical tools of political ecology, its contributors provide a hitherto overlooked perspective on the current fate and reception of 'environmentalism' in the region. It ask...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Krasznai Kovacs, Eszter.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2021.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contributors
  • Introduction: Political Ecology in Eastern Europe
  • Part I
  • 1. The Dismantling of Environmentalism in Hungary
  • 2. The Making of the Environmental and Climate Justice Movements in the Czech Republic
  • 3. The Construction of Climate Justice Imaginaries through Resistance in the Czech Republic and Poland
  • 4. Gaps of Warsaw: Urban Environmentalism through Green Interstices
  • Part II
  • 5. Far-right Grassroots Environmental Activism in Poland and the Blurry Lines of 'Acceptable' Environmentalisms
  • 6. Contorted Naturalisms: The Concept of Romanian Nationalist Mountains
  • 7. A (Hi)Story of Dwelling in a (Post)Mining Town in Romania
  • Part III
  • 8. The Shifting Geopolitical Ecologies of Wild Nature Conservation in Romania
  • 9. Domesticating the Taste of Place: Post-Socialist Terroir and Policy Landscapes in Tokaj, Hungary
  • 10. A Geographical Political Ecology of Eastern European Food Systems
  • 11. What Is Not Known about Rural Development? Village Experiences from Serbia
  • 12. Failure to Hive: A Co-narrated Story of a Failed Social Co-operative from the Hungarian Countryside
  • Concluding Thoughts
  • List of Figures
  • Index.