Introduction
Part1: Extractivism
1. There Used to Be Water: Soviet Water Policies, Archaeologists and Ethnographers in Central Asia
2. Administrations, Herders and Experts: Crossing Sources and Scales to Write a Social History of Overgrazing in Soviet Kazakhstan (1960-1980)
3. Environmental and Community Preservation in the face of Fossil Fuel Development: The Case of Berezovka, Kazakhstan
Part2: Paternalism and Protection
4. Saiga Antelopes (Saiga Tatarica) in the Environmental History of the Qazaq Steppe and Desert 5. To Tame, Improve, Protect: Environmental Discourse in Soviet Graphic Satire, 1950s-1991
6. What is in the Air? Citizen Science, Eco-Internationalism and Urban Air Pollution in Bishkek and Almaty
Part3: Enspirited Nature
7. Get Set! Horse Training as a Discontinuous Action: A Central Asian Physiology that Forces Nature, but is in Tune with the Seasons
8. Relating to People, Homeland and Environment the Kyrgyz Way? A Dialogue Between Activism and Engaged Scholarship 9. The Bee-Human: Imagining a New Qazaq identity in Oralkhan Bokei’s Novel Atau-Kere
Part4: Threats from Nature
10. Climate Disaster or Anticipated Crisis? Ways of Knowing the Environment in Pre-Soviet Central Asia
11. The Power of Apricot: Border Disputes, Land Scarcity and Mobility in the Isfara River Basin
12. Water and Irrigation Arrangements in the Pamirs of Tajikistan