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SUMMARY:Movable Nature: “Greening” Large Dams in Northeastern Turkey -
  Dr Ekin Kurtiç (Department of Politics and International Studies\, Unive
 rsity of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Dr Laszlo Cseke
DESCRIPTION:This presentation will critically examine the incorporation of
  environmental concerns into the technopolitics of large dams in northeast
 ern Turkey. In the last decade\, resettlement and restoration efforts rela
 ted to infrastructure and extraction projects expanded to encompass plant 
 life. In the Çoruh Basin\, where the country’s two highest dams are loc
 ated\, resettlement plans that traditionally focused on local communities 
 and archaeological sites expanded to include plant life as part of a broad
 er trend of “greening” large dams. State-led projects of salvaging and
  relocating endemic plants\, local fruit species\, and farming soils produ
 ced what I call movable nature. My ethnographic analysis of these projects
  shows that the governmental practice of making nature movable is a salvag
 e work that moves nature out of the way of infrastructure and extraction p
 rojects.
LOCATION:Small Lecture Theatre\, Department of Geography
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