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Parution : Zozan Pehlivan, The Political Ecology of Violence. Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century, Cambridge University Press, 2025

 

The Political Ecology of Violence
Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century

 

 

 

Zozan Pehlivan, University of Minnesota
 

 

In this innovative, interdisciplinary work, Zozan Pehlivan presents a new environmental perspective on intercommunal conflict, rooting slow violence in socioeconomic shifts and climatic fluctuations. From the nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, recurrent and extreme climate disruptions became an underlying yet unacknowledged component of escalating conflict between Christian Armenian peasants and Muslim Kurdish pastoralists in Ottoman Kurdistan. By the eve of the First World War, the Ottoman state’s shifting responses to these mounting tensions transformed the conflict into organized and state-sponsored violence. Pehlivan upends the ‘desert-sown’ thesis and establishes a new theoretical and conceptual framework drawing on climate science, agronomy, and zoology. From this alternative vantage point, Pehlivan examines the impact of climate on local communities, their responses and resilience strategies, arguing that nineteenth-century ecological change had a transformative and antagonistic impact on economy, state, and society.

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Chargé de diffusion scientifique (5 mars 2025). Parution : Zozan Pehlivan, The Political Ecology of Violence. Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century, Cambridge University Press, 2025. IISMM. Consulté le 22 avril 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/13f3f


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