REECA alumna Jackie Erlon-Baurjan talks with Kelly about water: about how it was conceptualized and managed on the Kazakh steppe in the 19th century, and about how it (or the lack of it) shaped her own family's traditions near the Altai Mountains.
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About our Guest
Jackie is interested in how ecological context shapes our ideas of time and place within Central and Inner Asia. Her research examines Soviet collectivization and its attendant policy in pastoral sedentarization, interrogating forms of indigenous resistance and movement in the contexts of structural violence or impossibility. Her research interests reside at the nexus of the making of the nation-state, ecology, and violence to think about "more than human histories."