LEADER 04114nam 22006735 450 001 9910595052603321 005 20251009103101.0 010 $a9783031131127$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031131110 010 $z9783031131134 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-13112-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7098191 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7098191 035 $a(CKB)24865887300041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-13112-7 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924865887300041 100 $a20220919d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcz#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aXenophobic Mountains $eLandscape Sentience Reconsidered in the Romanian Carpathians /$fby Alexandra Cotofana 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (150 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Cotofana, Alexandra Xenophobic Mountains Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031131110 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: National identity and the occult in late postsocialism -- Chapter 3: Literatures of sentience -- Chapter 4: Ethnographies of sentience -- Chapter 5: Carpathian omnipresence -- Chapter 6: Conclusion. 330 $aThis book, based on ethnographic research in Romania, traces the ontological red lines that form a world in which xenophobic landscapes are possible. The last couple hundred years in Romania?s history have been marked by change of political regimes, but this manuscript pays equal attention to an important continuity in Romania?s ontological world: its understanding of the landscape, and the relationship between Romanian people and their land. From political discourses to children?s books, to literature, and explanations found for everyday events, the book follows the ways in which the landscape of Romania has been understood as a sentient being imbued with willpower and ability to act on the world. The sentience specific to Romania?s landscape is characterized by xenophobia?a fear and distrust of ethno-religious others?that has been historically interpreted by Romanians as manifesting through acts of violence enacted by the landscape towards various groups of humans understood as dangerous to the country?s unity. The novelty of this book lies in the fact that it is an in-depth analysis of an ontological world in which sentient landscapes are de-romanticized and presented in their uncomfortable complexity. The concept of sentient xenophobic mountains can add a great deal to the current literature on the ontological turn and ontological multiplicities, by questioning binaries like colonized/colonizer, indigenous/colonial, sentient landscape/industrial superpower. Romania?s history makes it a good case study for this exercise, as the country has been at the margins of empires, both desired because of its natural resources and rejected because of the perceived inferiority of its people, both racialized and racist, both neoliberal and imagining absolute sovereignty. . 606 $aHuman ecology 606 $aOntology 606 $aEurope$xHistory 606 $aEthnology 606 $aAnthropology of religion 606 $aEnvironmental Anthropology 606 $aOntology 606 $aEuropean History 606 $aEthnography 606 $aAnthropology of Religion 615 0$aHuman ecology. 615 0$aOntology. 615 0$aEurope$xHistory. 615 0$aEthnology. 615 0$aAnthropology of religion. 615 14$aEnvironmental Anthropology. 615 24$aOntology. 615 24$aEuropean History. 615 24$aEthnography. 615 24$aAnthropology of Religion. 676 $a306 676 $a305.80094779 700 $aCotofana$b Alexandra$01258079 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910595052603321 996 $aXenophobic Mountains$92915786 997 $aUNINA