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195 produkter
Weather, Religion and Climate Change
Häftad, 2023
647 kr
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Weather, Religion and Climate Change is the first in-depth exploration of the fascinating way in which the weather impacts on the fields of religion, art, culture, history, science, and architecture. In critical dialogue with meteorology and climate science, this book takes the reader beyond the …
Aesthetics of the Undersea
Av Margaret Cohen, Killian Quigley
Inbunden, 2019
2887 kr
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Among global environments, the undersea is unique in the challenges it poses – and the opportunities it affords – for sensation, perception, inquiry, and fantasy. The Aesthetics of the Undersea draws case studies in such potencies from the subaqueous imaginings of Western culture, and from the …
Environmental Justice in Contemporary US Narratives
Häftad, 2019
618 kr
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Environmental Justice in Contemporary US Narratives examines post-1929 US artistic interrogations of environmental disruption. Tracing themes of pollution, marine life, and agricultural production in the work of a number of historically significant writers including John Steinbeck, Ruth Ozeki, and …
Shifting Sands of the North Sea Lowlands
Literary and Historical Imaginaries
Av Katie Ritson
Häftad, 2018
744 kr
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Global seawater levels are rising and the low-lying coasts of the North Sea basin are amongst the most vulnerable in Europe. In our current moment of environmental crisis, the North Sea coasts are literary arenas in which the challenges and concerns of the Anthropocene are being played out. This …
Writing a New Environmental Era
Moving forward to nature
Av Ken Hiltner
Inbunden, 2019
2887 kr
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Writing a New Environmental Era first considers and then rejects back-to-nature thinking and its proponents like Henry David Thoreau, arguing that human beings have never lived at peace with nature. Consequently, we need to stop thinking about going back to what never was and instead work at moving …
Writing a New Environmental Era
Moving forward to nature
Av Ken Hiltner
Häftad, 2019
744 kr
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Writing a New Environmental Era first considers and then rejects back-to-nature thinking and its proponents like Henry David Thoreau, arguing that human beings have never lived at peace with nature. Consequently, we need to stop thinking about going back to what never was and instead work at moving …
Cultures of Prediction in Atmospheric and Climate Science
Epistemic and Cultural Shifts in Computer-based Modelling and Simulation
Av Matthias Heymann, Gabriele Gramelsberger m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
749 kr
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In recent decades, science has experienced a revolutionary shift. The development and extensive application of computer modelling and simulation has transformed the knowledge‐making practices of scientific fields as diverse as astro‐physics, genetics, robotics and demography. This epistemic …
Governing the Environment in the Early Modern World
Theory and Practice
Av Sara Miglietti, John Morgan
Häftad, 2019
772 kr
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Throughout the early modern period, scientific debate and governmental action became increasingly preoccupied with the environment, generating discussion across Europe and the wider world as to how to improve land and climate for human benefit. This discourse eventually promoted the reconsideration …
Women and Nature?
Beyond Dualism in Gender, Body, and Environment
Häftad, 2019
749 kr
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Women and Nature? Beyond Dualism in Gender, Body, and Environment provides a historical context for understanding the contested relationships between women and nature, and it articulates strategies for moving beyond the dualistic theories and practices that often frame those relationships.In 1974, …
Perma/Culture:
Imagining Alternatives in an Age of Crisis
Av Molly Wallace, David Carruthers
Häftad, 2019
749 kr
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In the face of what seems like a concerted effort to destroy the only planet that can sustain us, critique is an important tool. It is in this vein that most scholars have approached environmental crisis. While there are numerous texts that chronicle contemporary issues in environmental ills, there …
Nature State
Rethinking the History of Conservation
Av Wilko Hardenberg, Matthew Kelly m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
749 kr
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This volume brings together case studies from around the globe (including China, Latin America, the Philippines, Namibia, India and Europe) to explore the history of nature conservation in the twentieth century. It seeks to highlight the state, a central actor in these efforts, which is often taken …
Environmental History of Modern Migrations
Av Marco Armiero, Richard Tucker
Häftad, 2019
749 kr
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In the age of climate change, the possibility that dramatic environmental transformations might cause the dislocation of millions of people has become not only a matter for scientific speculation or science-fiction narratives, but the object of strategic planning and military analysis. …
Museum Practices and the Posthumanities
Curating for Planetary Habitability
Häftad, 2023
604 kr
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This book critiques modern museologies and curatorial practices that have been complicit in emerging existential crises. It confidently presents novel, more-than-human curatorial visions, methods, frameworks, policies, and museologies radically refiguring the epistemological foundations of …
Carbon Footprints as Cultural-Ecological Metaphors
Av Anita Girvan
Häftad, 2019
822 kr
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Through an examination of carbon footprint metaphors, this books demonstrates the ways in which climate change and other ecological issues are culturally and materially constituted through metaphor.The carbon footprint metaphor has achieved a ubiquitous presence in Anglo-North American public …
Ecological Exile
Spatial Injustice and Environmental Humanities
Häftad, 2019
822 kr
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Ecological Exile explores how contemporary literature, film, and media culture confront ecological crises through perspectives of spatial justice – a facet of social justice that looks at unjust circumstances as a phenomenon of space. Growing instances of flooding, population displacement, and …
Waste Matters
Urban margins in contemporary literature
Häftad, 2019
979 kr
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How do those pushed to the margins survive in contemporary cities? What role do they play in today’s increasingly complex urban ecosystems? Faced with stark disparities in human and environmental wellbeing, what form might more equitable cities take? Waste Matters argues that contemporary …
Temporalities of Waste
Out of Sight, Out of Time
Av Fiona Allon, Ruth Barcan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2510 kr
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This book investigates the complex and unpredictable temporalities of waste. Reflecting on waste in the context of sustainability, materiality, social practices, subjectivity and environmental challenges, the book covers a wide range of settings, from the municipal garbage crisis in Beirut, to food …
Housing for Degrowth
Principles, Models, Challenges and Opportunities
Av Anitra Nelson, François Schneider
Häftad, 2019
749 kr
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‘Degrowth’, a type of ‘postgrowth’, is becoming a strong political, practical and cultural movement for downscaling and transforming societies beyond capitalist growth and non-capitalist productivism to achieve global sustainability and satisfy everyone’s basic needs. This groundbreaking collection …
Weather, Religion and Climate Change
Inbunden, 2020
2510 kr
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Weather, Religion and Climate Change is the first in-depth exploration of the fascinating way in which the weather impacts on the fields of religion, art, culture, history, science, and architecture. In critical dialogue with meteorology and climate science, this book takes the reader beyond the …
Trees in Nineteenth-Century English Fiction
The Silvicultural Novel
Av Anna Burton
Inbunden, 2021
2887 kr
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This is a book about a longstanding network of writers and writings that celebrate the aesthetic, socio-political, scientific, ecological, geographical, and historical value of trees and tree spaces in the landscape; and it is a study of the effect of this tree-writing upon the novel form in the …
Food for Degrowth
Perspectives and Practices
Av Anitra Nelson, Ferne Edwards
Inbunden, 2020
2510 kr
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This collection breaks new ground by investigating applications of degrowth in a range of geographic, practical and theoretical contexts along the food chain. Degrowth challenges growth and advocates for everyday practices that limit socio-metabolic energy and material flows within planetary …
Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia
Places and Practices of Power in Changing Environments
Av Riamsara Kuyakanon, Hildegard Diemberger m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2510 kr
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Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia offers a unique insight into the non-human and spiritual dimensions of environmental management in a changing world.This volume presents a comparative, place-based exploration of landscapes across Asia and the entities, practices and knowledges that inhabit …
Environmental Humanities and Theologies
Ecoculture, Literature and the Bible
Av Rod Giblett
Häftad, 2020
720 kr
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Many ways of thinking about and living with ‘the environment’ have their roots in the Bible and the Christian cultural tradition. Environmental Humanities and Theologies shows that some of these ways are problematic. It also provides alternative ways that value both materiality and spirituality. …
Cultural Sustainability
Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences
Av Torsten Meireis, Gabriele Rippl
Häftad, 2020
720 kr
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If the political and social benchmarks of sustainability and sustainable development are to be met, ignoring the role of the humanities and social, cultural and ethical values is highly problematic. People’s worldviews, beliefs and principles have an immediate impact on how they act and should be …
Towards an Ecocritical Theatre
Playing the Anthropocene
Inbunden, 2022
2887 kr
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Towards an Ecocritical Theatre investigates contemporary theatre through the lens of Anthropocene-oriented ecocriticism. It assesses how Anthropocene thinking engages different modes of theatrical representation, as well as how the theatrical apparatus can rise to the representational challenges of …
Towards an Ecocritical Theatre
Playing the Anthropocene
Häftad, 2024
712 kr
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Towards an Ecocritical Theatre investigates contemporary theatre through the lens of Anthropocene-oriented ecocriticism. It assesses how Anthropocene thinking engages different modes of theatrical representation, as well as how the theatrical apparatus can rise to the representational challenges of …
Urban Ecology and Intervention in the 21st Century Americas
Verticality, Catastrophe, and the Mediated City
Häftad, 2020
647 kr
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This book takes a hemispheric approach to contemporary urban intervention, examining urban ecologies, communication technologies, and cultural practices in the twenty-first century. It argues that governmental and social regimes of control and forms of political resistance converge in speculation …
Urban Ecology and Intervention in the 21st Century Americas
Verticality, Catastrophe, and the Mediated City
Inbunden, 2020
2510 kr
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This book takes a hemispheric approach to contemporary urban intervention, examining urban ecologies, communication technologies, and cultural practices in the twenty-first century. It argues that governmental and social regimes of control and forms of political resistance converge in speculation …
Mosquitopia
The Place of Pests in a Healthy World
Av Marcus Hall, Dan Tamïr
Häftad, 2021
618 kr
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This edited volume brings together natural scientists, social scientists and humanists to assess if (or how) we may begin to coexist harmoniously with the mosquito. The mosquito is humanity’s deadliest animal, killing over a million people each year by transmitting malaria, yellow fever, Zika and …
Mosquitopia
The Place of Pests in a Healthy World
Av Marcus Hall, Dan Tamïr
Inbunden, 2021
2510 kr
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This edited volume brings together natural scientists, social scientists and humanists to assess if (or how) we may begin to coexist harmoniously with the mosquito. The mosquito is humanity’s deadliest animal, killing over a million people each year by transmitting malaria, yellow fever, Zika and …
