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  1. Environment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan’s Aral Sea Region : Sea changes
    Author: Wheeler, William
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  UCL Press, London

    The Aral Sea is well known for its devastating regression over the second half of the twentieth century, and for its recent partial restoration. Environment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan’s Aral Sea Region is the first book to explore... more

     

    The Aral Sea is well known for its devastating regression over the second half of the twentieth century, and for its recent partial restoration. Environment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan’s Aral Sea Region is the first book to explore what these monumental changes have meant to those living on the sea’s shores. Following the fluctuating fortunes of the pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet fisheries, the book shows how the vast environmental changes the region has undergone cannot be disentangled from the transformations of Soviet socialism and postsocialism. This ethnographic perspective prompts a critical rethinking of the category of environmental disaster through which the region is predominantly known. Tracing how the sea’s retreat and partial return have been apprehended by diverse local actors in the former port of Aral’sk and surrounding fishing villages, as well as by scientists, bureaucrats and international development workers, William Wheeler draws out the multiple meanings environmental change acquires within different contexts. This study of how people make their lives amidst overlapping ecological and political-economic upheavals is rich in ethnographic detail that is both rooted in Soviet legacies and alive to the new transnational connections that are reshaping the region. Offering a rigorous political ecology of Soviet socialism and after, the book is a major contribution to the nascent environmental anthropology of Central Asia. It will be of interest to environmental anthropologists, environmental historians, and scholars of all disciplines working on Central Asia and the former USSR.

     
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  2. Botanical illustration
    Author: Wheeler, William
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  L'Aventurine, Paris

    Location:
    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 2914199333
    Subjects: Pflanzendarstellung; Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten
    Scope: 172 S., überw. Ill.
  3. Botanical illustration
    Author: Wheeler, William
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  L'Aventurine, Paris

    Location:
    Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
    Signature:
    M4Wheeler
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    Location:
    Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg Ravensburg, Bibliothek
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    MRke 39
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    Location:
    Universitätsbibliothek Vechta
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    906836
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    Location:
    Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau, Bibliothek
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    75/15165
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 2914199333
    RVK Categories: WB 2442
    Subjects: Pflanzendarstellung; Geschichte; Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten;
    Scope: 172 S., zahlr. Ill.
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    Literaturverz. S. 171 - 172