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Employing methodological perspectives from the fields of political geography, environmental studies, anthropology, and their cognate disciplines, this volume explores alternative logics of sentient landscapes as racist, xenophobic, and right-wing. While the field of sentient landscapes has gained critical attention, the literature rarely seems to question the intentionality of sentient landscapes, which are often romanticized as pure, good, and just, and perceived as protectors of those who are powerless, indigenous, and colonized. The book takes a new stance on sentient landscapes with the intention of dispelling the denial of “coevalness” represented by their scholarly romanticization.
“Enriched by contributions focused on different regions and blending historiographic, ethnographic and media materials, Coțofană and Kuran’s volume is a much-needed reminder about the troublesome connections linking theories of environmental sentience, landscape representations, and nationalism.” • Piergiorgio Di Giminiani, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
“This is a timely book that tackles some of the most divisive dynamics contemporary liberal democratic societies across the world are grappling with. It looks at exclusionary, xenophobic, and reactionary ideas and practices by focusing on the ways people engage with their natural surroundings.” • Annika Lems, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Introduction
Alexandra Coțofană
Chapter 1. Adamastor unbound? Whiteness and landscape in post-1994 South Africa
Scott Burnett
Chapter 2. Part of the Landscape: Quebecois Nationalism and Indigenous Sentience
Philippe Blouin
Chapter 3. Ingrained Ontologies: How Romania’s Institutionalized Processes Teach Us to Think with Xenophobic Sentient Landscapes
Alexandra Coțofană
Chapter 4. Hostile Territory: Communal Politics and Sentient Landscape in Ladakh, Himalayan India
Callum Pearce
Chapter 5. Forests as the Sentient Bridge between German Landscape and Identity
Hikmet Kuran
Chapter 6. Unruly Landscapes: Contested Desert Imaginaries in Post- Franco Spain
Arvid van Dam
Chapter 7. Shinkoku: Reconsidering the Concept of Sentient Landscapes from Japan
David Malitz
Chapter 8. Imagining Chile’s South: The Making of a Phobic Landscape of Prestige in the Forests
Georg T. A. Krizmanics
Chapter 9. Can the Forests be Xenophobic? Migrant Pathways through Croatia and the Forest as Cover
Sarah Czerny, Marijana Hameršak, Iva Pleše and Sanja Bojanić
Chapter 10. Footsteps through the City: Encounters with Social Justice in Czech Urban Landscapes
Susanna Trnka
Epilogue: Why it is Vital to Scrutinize the Connection between Landscape, Sentience and Xenophobia in the Age of Deepening Crises of Democracy and Ecology?
Hikmet Kuran
Index