Insisting on Boars: How Villagers of Karaburun Employ their Knowledge of Multispecies Entanglements in Local Power Struggles

Agricultural journalist Ali Ekber Yıldırım states that rural development in Turkey has long followed the notion that governance of agricultural landscapes is “too important to be left to the peasantry.” To bereave and counteract their dispossession from rural landscapes, villagers of the windy Karaburun peninsula tell stories of local ecological relations being damaged by developmental projects in the region. They present themselves not only as capable of governing agricultural lands, but also as vital for maintaining ecological relations within them, by displaying their knowledge of local wildlife and its disruption. Experts hoping to produce just and sustainable development plans could learn a lot from the villagers’ capabilities in the arts of noticing