Urban narratives about nature socio-ecological imaginaries between science and entertainment / edited by Carlos Tabernero.
| Other author | Tabernero, Carlos. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Lanham : Lexington Books, [2024] |
| Description | pages cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Environment and society |
| 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 Med©¿-Calvet -- The countryside in the frame : film representations of nature under Franco's dictatorship / Marta Pi©łol-Lloret -- Hunting narratives in twentieth-century Spain : the case of Miquel Delibes / Carlos G©Łmez-P©♭rez -- 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. |
| Abstract | "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 and globally shared environmental concerns"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024032044 |
| ISBN | 9781666950601 (cloth) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |