Environmental Stewardship

Images from Popular Culture

Inbunden, Engelska, 1997

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Beskrivning

This work addresses the cultural background of stewardship as a progression from individual personal aesthetics to a deeply informed environmental ethic that could become a national environmental policy. Howell begins by assessing our personal cultural background and our philosophical notions of our role in the natural world. She looks at the evolution of Western civilization and changing worldviews in relation to nature, examining especially early conceptions of a more appealing, simpler life closer to nature in contrast to the perceived civilized world that is portrayed as decadent. Howell examines archetypes from literature and the popular arts, finding examples in Jungian psychology and in contemporary film and television that support the Wild Man image and promote the Simple Life yearning. She then looks at the early 20th-century conservation and preservation writers as the most direct ancestors of today's environmental movement and an immediate source of inspiration.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1997-07-23
Mått:161 x 240 x 20 mm
Vikt:587 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780897893916

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Dorothy J. Howell, formerly an applied microbial ecologist, environmental counsel and educator, is a candidate for the PhD in environmental studies at Antioch New England Graduate School. She is the author of Ecology for Environmental Professionals (Quorum, 1994), Scientific Literacy and Environmental Policy (Quorum, 1992), and Intellectual Properties and the Legal Protection of Fictional Characters (Quorum, 1990).

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"Howell begins this fascinating book with a discussion of two films, Local Hero and On Deadly Ground, showing how in various manifestations of popular culture, 'each of us is either endowed with or searching for an environmental aesthetic. Howell argeus that people search for an expression of connection with nature in the popular media, and that this 'sacred journey' leads to better environmental policy. . . . [T]his ambitious and engrossing book presents a new understabding of its topic and is well worth reading. All general and academic collections." - Choice

Innehållsförteckning

Preface Introduction Origins: Whence We Come Origins of the Western Tradition Europe in the Continuum of the Western Tradition Tradition and the Founding of a Nation Repercussions: Expressions and Implications of Alienation Imagination and the Arts: Where We Saw Ourselves Emergence of the Simple Life Sciences, Art, and Literature Heroes, Wild Men, and the Noble Savage Reflections of the Natural World: What We Left Behind Lessons from beyond America's Western Tradition Images from Our First Nations Contemporary Amerindian Perspectives A Sense of Place Popular Culture: Outlets and Surrogates Place and Ambivalence in the Popular Arts Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan of the Apes: Timeless Surrogate Related Contemporaries and Descendants of Tarzan The Ape-Man's Modern Descendants and Remote Relatives Stewardship: Reconnection with the Natural World The Human Niche and Defining a Personal Environmental Ethic Cultural Sources for a Restored Relationship Toward a National Environmental Ethic Bibliography Index