Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe.

• Author: Krasznai Kovacs, Eszter.
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, UK : : Open Book Publishers,, 2021.; Ã2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 pages)

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 asks how emergent forms of environmentalism have been received, how these movements and perspectives have redefined landscapes, and what the subtler effects of new regulatory regimes on communities and environment-dependent livelihoods have been.

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.