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A Geographic and Environmental Threshold

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2024

Zozan Pehlivan
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University of Minnesota
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This chapter demonstrates the crucial role of geographic proximity in shaping agrarian and herding relations in the history of late Ottoman Kurdistan, including regional political economy, socioeconomic structures, and intercommunal relations. It argues that the region is marked by three distinct ecological zones, which differ from each other in terms of elevation, climate, vegetation, and both human and animal habitation. The chapter then shows the encroachment of the Ottoman state through the arrival of Tanzimat reforms and the multifaceted consequences this had in the region. Next, it illustrates a demographic portrait of the region, depicting how human beings brought different ecosystems into conversation with one another. It argues that pastoralism sustained the conversation between geographic zones into the nineteenth century, creating linkages and slippages between mountains, pastures, and plains, and defining the interaction between the three zones until these links began to weaken in the face of a series of environmental crises. The chapter concludes with a glimpse into five villages from different parts of the region.

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The Political Ecology of Violence
Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century
, pp. 36 - 90
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Kurdistan
  • Zozan Pehlivan, University of Minnesota
  • Book: The Political Ecology of Violence
  • Online publication: 22 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009535021.004
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  • Kurdistan
  • Zozan Pehlivan, University of Minnesota
  • Book: The Political Ecology of Violence
  • Online publication: 22 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009535021.004
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  • Kurdistan
  • Zozan Pehlivan, University of Minnesota
  • Book: The Political Ecology of Violence
  • Online publication: 22 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009535021.004
Available formats
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