The Roots of Environmental Consciousness: Popular Tradition and Personal Experience

ISBN-13: 9780415242592 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 240 str.

Paul Thompson; Stephen Hussey

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction: the roots of environmental consciousness, Stephen Hussey, Paul Thompson; Chapter 2 The English, the trees, the wild and the green, Paul Thompson; Chapter 3 Animals, children and peasants in Tuscany, Giovanni Contini; Chapter 4 Narrating nature, Daniela Koleva; Chapter 5 When the water comes, Selma Leydesdorff; Chapter 6 'Our land is our only wealth', Olivia Bennett; Chapter 7 Using community memory against the onslaught of development, Jaclyn Jeffrey; Chapter 8 Signs of things to come, David W. Forrest; Chapter 9 The environmental movement in Kazakstan, Timothy Edmunds; Chapter 10 Paths to ecofeminist activism, Niamh Moore; Chapter 11 Pathways to the Amazon, Andréa Zhouri;

O autorze

Stephen Hussey, Paul Thompson