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Discusses how ecology activists in Slovakia generated a social movement that led to political dialogue about freedom, ethnicity, and power.

Table of Contents

Foreword 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

About the Author

Edward Snajdr is associate professor of anthropology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.

Reviews

"Nature Protests is a vivid examination of the transition to post-socialist politics in the late twentieth century. The case is Slovakia, and the question is: why does environmental politics expand and shrink so rapidly as communist government comes to an end in Eastern Europe? Ed Snajdr's answer contributes an excellent addition to anthropological studies of the politics of nature as the iron curtain falls away." K. Sivaramakrishnan, Professor of Anthropology, Yale University "This book tells two important stories-about ecological activism and about the tumultuous transformation to democracy and market in Eastern Europe-from the point of view of a small country that is not much studied but that is, in fact, a keystone for the region." Andrzej W. Tymowski, Director of International Programs, American Council of Learned Societies