{"id":2312,"date":"2026-07-15T20:57:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T20:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondcatastrophe.com\/?p=2312"},"modified":"2026-07-15T21:43:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:43:38","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondcatastrophe.com\/ru\/off-the-map-and-in-the-shadow-water-salt-fish-and-gardens-in-the-amu-darya-delta-in-uzbekistan\/","title":{"rendered":"","raw":""},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false,"raw":""},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false,"raw":""},"author":6,"featured_media":2313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_en_post_content":"<!-- wp:media-text {\"mediaId\":2313,\"mediaLink\":\"https:\/\/www.beyondcatastrophe.com\/off-the-map-and-in-the-shadow-water-salt-fish-and-gardens-in-the-amu-darya-delta-in-uzbekistan\/2021-10-30-17-32-21\/\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"mediaType\":\"image\"} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.beyondcatastrophe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2021-10-30-17.32.21-scaled-e1784148982277-1015x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2313 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\"><!-- wp:paragraph {\"placeholder\":\"Content\u2026\"} -->\n<p>Abstract: The Aral \u201ccatastrophe\u201d has resulted from ongoing diversion of water flowing into the Aral Sea for irrigation, largely cotton, primarily from the 1960s until present. Shifting geographic focus south to the Amu Darya delta, this paper asks how feminist approaches to data and \u201cshadow places\u201d reshape understandings of the Aral Sea region\u2019s transformation. Interweaving the partial perspectives of ethnographic, geophysical, and remote sensing data through feminist mixed methods, I quantify flows of water into the delta from the 1930s to present, map out resulting temporal variability and spatial discontinuity of water, and probe the consequences for humans, fish, salt, and gardens. Bringing feminist political ecology into nascent conversations about more-than-human waterscapes, deltas, and wetlands, I argue that water and agricultural policies have \u201cshadowed\u201d the delta and increased local stress and precarity while benefiting global markets and consumers of cotton. 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