TY - BOOK AU - Scaramelli,Caterina TI - How to make a wetland: water and moral ecology in Turkey SN - 9781503613850 AV - QH77.T9 S33 2021 U1 - 333.91/809561 23 PY - 2021/// CY - Stanford, California PB - Stanford University Press KW - Wetland conservation KW - Social aspects KW - Turkey KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Political aspects KW - Human ecology N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-214) and index; The wetlands of Turkey -- Sediments -- Moral ecologies of infrastructure -- Caring for the delta -- Emergent wetland animals N2 - "This book offers an account of ecological and infrastructural transformations in Turkey's expansive swamps and marshes against the backdrop of authoritarian rule and the rise of wetland conservation science. Here, wetlands become an important site of everyday contestation for human and non-human livelihoods in a time of uncertain politics and in precarious and rapidly changing environments. Scaramelli analyzes the epistemological and affective practices that produce non-humans as political subjects, bringing environmental history and the history of science into conversation with ethnographic writing and anthropological theory"-- ER -