"Zozan Pehlivan's innovative examination of slow violence in late Ottoman Kurdistan offers an alternative theoretical framework for understanding inter-communal conflict. Drawing on interdisciplinary research, Pehlivan argues that ecological and climatic fluctuations had a transformative and antagonistic impact on economy, state and society"--
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Introduction: global climate, local ecologies, and socio-political instability; 1. Kurdistan: a geographic and environmental threshold; 2. Four-legged capitalism: Kurdistan's political economy in mid-nineteenth century; 3. ''What will the end [of] this be'?': peasants and pastoralists face a decade of crisis; 4. The empire of priorities: Ottoman relief policies in the age of scarcity; 5. Environment and the state: from communal to state sponsor violence; An epilogue after the animals died.
