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OverviewIn an age in which more than half of the Earth population lives in cities, and living conditions worldwide suffer from a steady increase in environmental issues, historical inquiry provides useful reflections about vital concerns and thus new perspectives on the present. Urban Narratives about Nature: Socio-Ecological Imaginaries between Science and Entertainment aims at generating specific historical knowledge concerning processes of production, circulation, and management of natural history narratives and the associated struggles for meaning within the socio-ecological relations involved. These processes take place ultimately in the socio-cultural space of communication, where media outputs, broadly understood, account for the development and interaction of subjectivities, and the eventual creation of agent and non-agent subjects. The city is a powerful storyteller that can only be understood with the countryside through one another. Upon a relational perspective, this book provides a rather diverse while deeply interrelated collection of case studies of urban-based production and circulation of narratives about nature. Altogether, these cases probe the complex relationships among scientific authority, public awareness, policymaking, corporate and political interests, and environmental advocacy, in effect expanding the interdisciplinary linking of urban and environmental history within a global history view. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Carlos Tabernero , Carlos Tabernero , Carlos Acosta , Marco Armiero, Icrea Research Professor, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, SpainPublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic ISBN: 9781666950601ISBN 10: 1666950602 Pages: 310 Publication Date: 15 November 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Narrating Nature from the City Part I: Between Academia and Activism Chapter 1: Miquel Crusafont and Sabadell: Narratives about Paleontology (Spain, 1950‒1973) Chapter 2: Environmentalism in Transition Part II: Between Knowledge and Entertainment Chapter 3: Wild at Heart: Zoological Gardens and the Urban Space Chapter 4: Mass Media and Urban Animals in History: The View from Interwar Britain Chapter 5: Teaching and Tinkering with Personal Computers in Catalan Rural Schools and Summer Camps (Spain, 1980s‒1990s) Part III: Between Film and Literature Chapter 6: The Countryside in the Frame: Film Representations of Nature under Franco’s Dictatorship Chapter 7: Hunting Narratives in Twentieth-Century Spain: The Case of Miquel Delibes Chapter 8: From El Modena to Terminator: Imagining Green Utopian Places for the Anthropocene Part IV: Between Natural History and Television Chapter 9: Percy Smith: The Triple Liminality of an Urban Natural History Filmmaker in Interwar Britain Chapter 10: The Granada TV and Film Unit at the London Zoo: “Creating Adequate Opportunity for Observing Patterns for Amateur and Professional Zoologists Alike” Chapter 11: Televising Nature as Modernization: El Hombre y la Tierra (Man and the Earth, 1974‒1981) in 1970s Spain Afterword: City of Silence, City of Stories: Or of Ghosts, Doors, and Subversion About the ContributorsReviews"""Nature has been narrated as dangerous, backward, salvific, and endangered. This book looks to cities for the mechanisms of production, development, and circulation nodes of some of these narratives. Through carefully chosen and researched cases studies, mostly located in 20th-century Spain and Great Britain, the essays in this edited volume compellingly show the transnational networks of media, experts, businesses, and activists that re-imagined non-urban landscapes from cities. From these studies, cities themselves emerge as contested spaces with porous walls traversed, often in unexpected ways, by the very natural entities that urban dwellers sought to tame through their storytelling."" -- Lino Camprubí, University of Seville" Author InformationCarlos Tabernero is associate professor in the Institute of History and Science at The Autonomous University of Barcelona. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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