Urban narratives about nature : socio-ecological imaginaries between science and entertainment /

This book invokes the relationship between nature and urban contexts as powerful storytellers through a timely contribution to the historical understanding of our mechanisms of production of narratives about nature, therefore breaking new ground for current and future research for locally situated a...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Tabernero, Carlos (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2025].
Series:Environment and society.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : narrating nature from the city / Carlos Tabernero
  • Miquel Crusafont and Sabadell : narratives about paleontology (Spain, 1950-1973) / Carlos Acosta
  • Environmentalism in transition / Santos Casado
  • Wild at heart : zoological gardens and the urban space / Oliver Hochadel
  • Mass media and urban animals in history : the view from interwar Britain / Max Long
  • Teaching and tinkering with personal computers in Catalan rural schools and summer camps (Spain, 1980s-1990s) / Ignasi Medà-Calvet
  • The countryside in the frame : film representations of nature under Franco's dictatorship / Marta Piñol-Lloret
  • Hunting narratives in twentieth-century Spain : the case of Miquel Delibes / Carlos Gámez-Pérez
  • From El modena to Terminator : imagining green utopian places for the Anthropocene / Lisa Garforth
  • Percy Smith : the triple liminality of an urban natural history filmmaker in interwar Britain / Tim Boon
  • The Granada TV and film unit at the London Zoo : "creating adequate opportunity for observing patterns for amateur and professional zoologists alike" / Jean-Baptiste Gouyon
  • Televising nature as modernization : El Hombre y la Tierra (Man and the Earth, 1974-1981) in 1970s Spain / Carlos Tabernero
  • Afterword : city of silence, city of stories : or of ghosts, doors, and subversion / Marco Armiero.