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The roots of environmental consciousness : popular tradition and personal experience /

This book examines the roots of contemporary environmental consciousness and action in terms of both popular experience and tradition. A wide range of case-studies explore traditions and myths that shape our environmental thought.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hussey, Stephen, 1967- (Editor ), Thompson, Paul, 1935- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Colección:Routledge studies in memory and narrative ; 6.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The roots of environmental consciousness : popular tradition and personal experience / Stephen Hussey and Paul Thompson
  • The English, the trees, the wild and the green : two millennia of mythological metamorphoses / Paul Thompson
  • Animals, children and peasants in Tuscany : a note on the San Gersolé archive / Giovanni Contini
  • Narrating nature : perceptions of the environment and attitudes towards it in life stories / Daniela Koleva
  • When the water comes : memories of survival after the 1953 flood / Selma Leydesdorff
  • 'Our land is our only wealth' : changing relationships with the environment / Olivia Bennett
  • Using community memory against the onslaught of development : a case study of successful resettlement in Zapata, Texas / Jaclyn Jeffrey
  • Signs of things to come : metaphor and environmental consciousness in a Yucatecan community / David W. Forrest
  • The environmental movement in Kazakstan : ecology, democracy and nationalism / Timothy Edmunds
  • Paths to ecofeminist activism : life stories from the north-east of England / Niamh Moore
  • Pathways to the Amazon : British campaigners in the Brazilian rainforest / Andrea Zhouri
  • Reviews. 'Not otherwise touchable somehow' : ecocriticism and literature / Jeff Wallace ; Archetypal history : Simon Schama's Landscape and memory / Bill Schwarz.