A Companion to Spanish Environmental Cultural Studies
Contributions by Dr Luis I Prádanos, Professor Maria Antònia Martí Escayol, Dr Santiago Gorostiza, Dr Daniel Ares-López, Dr Ana Fernández-Cebrián, Dr John H Trevathan, Dr Tatjana Gajiƈ, Professor Germán Labrador Méndez, Dr Ofelia Ferrán, Dr Miguel Caballero Vázquez, Katarzyna Olga Beilin, Dr Jamie De Moya-Cotter, Professor John Beusterien, Professor William Viestenz, Professor Eugenia Afinoguenova, Professor Glen S Close, Dr Pedro Garcia-Caro, Dr Maryanne L Leone, Dr Shanna Lino, Professor Cécile Stehrenberger, Dr Jeffrey K Coleman, Professor Cristina Martínez Tejero, Dr Mercè Picornell, Professor Joaquín Valdivielso, Professor José Manuel Marrero Henríquez, Professor Jordi Marí, Dr Jorge L Catalá-Carrasco, Dr Christine Martínez, Dr Pamela F Phillips, Professor Samuel Amago, Dr Micah McKay, Professor Maite Zubiaurre Edited by Dr Luis I Prádanos
Publication date:
17 January 2023Length of book:
346 pagesPublisher
Tamesis BooksDimensions:
234x156mmISBN-13: 9781800108684
An exploration of how writers, artists, and filmmakers expose the costs and contest the assumptions of the Capitalocene era that guides readers through the rapidly developing field of Spanish environmental cultural studies.
From the scars left by Franco's dams and mines to the toxic waste dumped in Equatorial Guinea, from the cruelty of the modern pork industry to the ravages of mass tourism in the Balearic Islands, this book delves into the power relations, material practices and social imaginaries underpinning the global economic system to uncover its unaffordable human and non-human costs. Guiding the reader through the rapidly emerging field of Spanish environmental cultural studies, with chapters on such topics as extractivism, animal studies, food studies, ecofeminism, decoloniality, critical race studies, tourism, and waste studies, an international team of US and European scholars show how Spanish writers, artists, and filmmakers have illuminated and contested the growth-oriented and neo-colonialist assumptions of the current Capitalocene era. Focussed on Spain, the volume also provides models for exploring the socioecological implications of cultural manifestations in other parts of the world.
CONTRIBUTORS: Eugenia Afinoguénova, Samuel Amago, Daniel Ares-López, Kata Beilin, John Beusterien, Miguel Caballero Vázquez, Jorge Catalá, Glen S. Close, Jeffrey K. Coleman, Jamie de Moya-Cotter, Ana Fernández-Cebrián, Ofelia Ferrán, Tatjana Gajic , Pedro García-Caro, Santiago Gorostiza, Germán Labrador Méndez, Maryanne L. Leone, Shanna Lino, Jorge Marí, José Manuel Marrero Henríquez, Maria Antònia Martí Escayol, Christine Martínez, Cristina Martínez Tejero, Micah McKay, Pamela F. Phillips, Mercè Picornell, Luis I. Prádanos, Cécile Stehrenberger, John H. Trevathan, Joaquín Valdivielso, William Viestenz, Maite Zubiaurre
From the scars left by Franco's dams and mines to the toxic waste dumped in Equatorial Guinea, from the cruelty of the modern pork industry to the ravages of mass tourism in the Balearic Islands, this book delves into the power relations, material practices and social imaginaries underpinning the global economic system to uncover its unaffordable human and non-human costs. Guiding the reader through the rapidly emerging field of Spanish environmental cultural studies, with chapters on such topics as extractivism, animal studies, food studies, ecofeminism, decoloniality, critical race studies, tourism, and waste studies, an international team of US and European scholars show how Spanish writers, artists, and filmmakers have illuminated and contested the growth-oriented and neo-colonialist assumptions of the current Capitalocene era. Focussed on Spain, the volume also provides models for exploring the socioecological implications of cultural manifestations in other parts of the world.
CONTRIBUTORS: Eugenia Afinoguénova, Samuel Amago, Daniel Ares-López, Kata Beilin, John Beusterien, Miguel Caballero Vázquez, Jorge Catalá, Glen S. Close, Jeffrey K. Coleman, Jamie de Moya-Cotter, Ana Fernández-Cebrián, Ofelia Ferrán, Tatjana Gajic , Pedro García-Caro, Santiago Gorostiza, Germán Labrador Méndez, Maryanne L. Leone, Shanna Lino, Jorge Marí, José Manuel Marrero Henríquez, Maria Antònia Martí Escayol, Christine Martínez, Cristina Martínez Tejero, Micah McKay, Pamela F. Phillips, Mercè Picornell, Luis I. Prádanos, Cécile Stehrenberger, John H. Trevathan, Joaquín Valdivielso, William Viestenz, Maite Zubiaurre
Spanish cultural studies have largely ignored ecological concerns, and this book reveals the enormity of the gap that oversight creates in the field's understanding of cultural history. It also shows how an ecological perspective can amplify our critiques, with frameworks like social metabolism, extractivism, ecofeminism, racialized ecologies, non-human agency and discard studies. It is to be appreciated that some chapters recognize the work of noted Spain-based environmental activitists and thinkers [...].