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Book SynopsisDiscusses how ecology activists in Slovakia generated a social movement that led to political dialogue about freedom, ethnicity, and power. This work explains why Slovakia's ecology movement, so strong under socialism, fell apart so rapidly despite the persistence of serious ecological maladies in the region.
Trade Review"… the book profits from its narrative and analysis based on the author's knowledge of theory and his authentic experience. It is an insightful contribution to the discourse on the continuing multi-layered evolution of post-communist states and societies in Early Europe, in which ecology has played an important point."
* Slovakia *
"Snajdr shows that the success of the ecology movement hinged on its ability to make environmental concerns discursively central to, and in line with, other kinds of desires and discontents. In doing so, his study points to the resonance between environmental and other cultural and political discourses as a potentially important factor in accounting for the success or failure of environmental movements in any national context, making the book a contribution not only to the understanding of post-communist transitions but of environmental politics worldwide."
* PoLAR: Political & Legal Anthropology Review *
"…intelligent and interesting account of the fate of the ecology movement in Slovakia in the last two decades. It deserves to be widely read."
* Canadian Slavonic Papers *
"Nature Protests is an engaging contribution to postcommunist environmental studies. Lively and well-written, it is appropriate for upper-level undergraduates as well as graduate studies."
* Slavic Review *
"Snajdr's work draws on multidisciplinary theoretical traditions and empirical works in anthropology and political ecology, a synthesis that emerges as an original contribution to an anthropology that has thus far paid scant attention to ecology, let along ecological movements. Essential."
* Choice *
Table of ContentsForeword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Communist Environmentality
2. Hatchets versus the Hammer and Sickle
3. "Bratislava Aloud"
4. Nation over Nature
5. Argonauts of the Eastern Bloc
6. Returning to the Landscape
7. Conclusion: Slovakia in an Age of Post-Ecology
Notes
References
Index
