Description:
Environment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan's Aral Sea Region explores how the sea's retreat and partial return has impacted the lives of people living in the area.
Brief description: William Wheeler is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Social Anthropology, University of Manchester.
Review Quotes:
'a godsend...one of the most recent, must-read, and up-to-date analyses of this disaster and its effects... rich with the author's personal experience and encounters with the local people as he takes on an ethnographic journey...'
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