Ottoman Lakes and Fluid Landscapes: Environing, Wetlands and Conservation in the Marmara Lake Basin, Circa 1550–1900 (2024)
Çelik, Semih (Author)
Luke, Christina (Author)
Roosevelt, Christopher H. (Author)
Environment and History
Volume: 30
Issue: 1
Pages: 53-76
The study of Ottoman lakes and wetlands from the perspective of management and conservation is an emerging field. Scholars have explored Ottoman strategies for managing agricultural and extractive landscapes, yet detailed investigation of socio-political responses to dynamic wetlands, particularly during periods of drastic climate shifts, requires deeper investigation. Our research on wetlands and lakes moves from the purview of waqfs (pious foundations) to the emergence of the Ottoman Public Debt Administration (OPDA). By examining the shifting perspectives of institutional authority and community responses to it from the early modern period to the nineteenth century, we discuss the complexities of wetland management in the Marmara Lake Basin within the sancak of Saruhan (contemporary Manisa) in western Anatolia. We argue that intimate knowledge of this specific ecosystem played a critical role in mitigating attempts at reclamation and land grabbing and ultimately in developing legal structures of and policies for Ottoman conservation strategies. We situate our discussion within the paradigm of environing made possible by detailed longue-durée archival narratives; these micro-histories afford a dynamic perspective into non-linear responses to ecological and political changes and provide a local lens into the scalar impacts of human agency.
...MoreSimilar Citations
Article
Katja Bruisch;
(2020)
Nature Mistaken: Resource-Making, Emotions and the Transformation of Peatlands in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
(/isis/citation/CBB975736525/)
Book
Kristian Karlo Saguin;
(2022)
Urban Ecologies on the Edge: Making Manila's Resource Frontier
(/isis/citation/CBB027282027/)
Book
Emily O'Gorman;
(2021)
Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin
(/isis/citation/CBB547050961/)
Article
Maurice Paulissen;
Roy Van Beek;
Edward H. Huijbens;
(2024)
How Bogs Made for Borderlands: The Eastern Low Countries, c. 670 – c. 1900 ce
(/isis/citation/CBB178903966/)
Book
John Dixon Hunt;
Stephen H. Whiteman;
(2023)
Landscape and Authority in the Early Modern World
(/isis/citation/CBB087652821/)
Book
Ian M. Miller;
Paul S. Sutter;
(2020)
Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China
(/isis/citation/CBB869490594/)
Chapter
Andrea Bonoldi;
(2016)
La risorsa mutevole. L'Adige nell'economia della regione trentino-tirolese
(/isis/citation/CBB675032851/)
Article
John S. Lee;
(2022)
Sylvan Anxieties and the Making of Landscapes in Early Modern Korea
(/isis/citation/CBB152958899/)
Book
Rabier, Christelle;
(2007)
Fields of Expertise: A Comparative History of Expert Procedures in Paris and London, 1600 to Present
(/isis/citation/CBB001035781/)
Book
Velayutham Saravanan;
(2018)
Environmental History and Tribals in Modern India
(/isis/citation/CBB693568918/)
Book
Alessandra Dattero;
(2022)
Il bosco: Biodiversità, diritti e culture dal medioevo al nostro tempo
(/isis/citation/CBB708100664/)
Book
Gerry Barnes;
Toby Pillatt;
Tom Williamson;
(2017)
Trees in England: Management and Disease since 1600
(/isis/citation/CBB382961786/)
Book
Feza Günergun;
(2016)
Pursuing Knowledge: Scientific Instruments, Manuscripts and Prints from Istanbul University Collections = Bilginin izinde : İstanbul Üniversitesi koleksiyonlarından bilimsel aletler, yazmalar, baskılar
(/isis/citation/CBB300101119/)
Book
Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu;
(2020)
Studies on Ottoman Science and Culture
(/isis/citation/CBB934328666/)
Book
Faroqhi, Suraiya;
(2009)
Artisans of Empire: Crafts and Craftspeople under the Ottomans
(/isis/citation/CBB001251041/)
Article
Halil Tekiner;
(2024)
A concise history of Italian influences on Turkish pharmacy
(/isis/citation/CBB105732756/)
Book
Carlo Tosco;
(2017)
Il paesaggio come storia
(/isis/citation/CBB046931414/)
Book
Armiero, Marco;
Hall, Marcus;
(2010)
Nature and History in Modern Italy
(/isis/citation/CBB001034477/)
Book
Michael Jakob;
(2022)
Le origini tecnologiche del paesaggio
(/isis/citation/CBB943013978/)
Book
Abelardo Gil-Fournier;
Jussi Parikka;
(2024)
Living Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media
(/isis/citation/CBB736512044/)
Be the first to comment!