Nueva Publicación
Urban Narratives about Nature. Socio-Ecological Imaginaries between Science and Entertainment
Nuevo libro en el iHC: Lexington Books. Series: Environment and Society
Editor: Carlos Tabernero.
Contribuciones de: Carlos Tabernero; Carlos Acosta; Marco Armiero; Tim Boon; Santos Casado; Carlos Gámez-Pérez; Lisa Garforth; Jean-Baptiste Gouyon; Oliver Hochadel; Max Long; Ignasi Medà-Calvet and Marta Piñol-Lloret.
RESUMEN
When 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 and 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. The city is a powerful storyteller, and this book, upon a relational perspective, provides a diverse and 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.
CONTENIDO
Acknowledgments
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 Contributors
ISBN: 978-1-66695-060-1 (paper) | 978-1-66695-061-8 (ebook)