ABSTRACT
Anthropocene, climate change, migration, extinction, climate justice, water studies, climate fiction, animal studies, ecofeminism, and posthumanism. The Eastern cultures in general, and Anatolia as its specific instance, have always been erroneously viewed as lessons in peaceful and harmonious co-existence with nature. The favorite of international film festival circuit, Ceyda Torun’s documentary Kedi, illustrates just how humans are capable of forming nonanthropomorphic and nonutilitarian relations with animals with whom they share the urban environment, even in a city that is becoming ever more competitive in its distribution of resources. The field of research that broadly focuses on the relation between cultural forms of representation and ecology has so far been defined under a wide range of terminology, with different implications. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
