Hussey / Thompson The Roots of Environmental Consciousness

Popular Tradition and Personal Experience
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-1-134-54680-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative

This book examines the roots of contemporary environmental consciousness and action in terms of both popular experience and tradition. A wide range of geographical and thematic case-studies explore the myth, tradition and collective memory that shape our environmental thought.

Containing a wealth of empirical source material, this book will be invaluable for sociologists and historians alike.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hussey, Stephen

Thompson, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. The English, the trees, the wild and the green Paul Thompson

2. Animals, children and peasants in Tuscany Giovanni Contini

3. Narrating Nature: perceptions of the environment and attitudes towards it in life stories Daniela Koleva

4. When the water comes: memories of survival after the 1953 flood Selma Leydesdorff

5. Our land is our only wealth Olivia Bennett

6. Using community memory against the onslaught of development: resettlement in Zapata, Texas Jaclyn Jeffrey

7. Signs of things to come: metaphor and environmental consciousness in a Yuctecan community David Forrest

8. The environmental movement in Kasakstan Timothy Edmunds

9. Paths to ecofeminist activism: life stories from the north-east of England Niamh Moore

10. Pathways to the Amazon: British campaigners in the Brazilian rainforest Andreaa Zhouri