Urban Narratives about Nature

Socio-Ecological Imaginaries between Science and Entertainment

By: Carlos Tabernero (Editor, Contribution by), Carlos Acosta (Contribution by), Marco Armiero (Contribution by), Tim Boon (Contribution by)

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Hardcover | 15 February 2025

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In an age in which more than half of the Earth population lives in cities, and living conditions worldwide suffer from a steady increase in environmental issues, historical inquiry provides useful reflections about vital concerns and thus new perspectives on the present. Urban Narratives about Nature: Socio-Ecological Imaginaries between Science and Entertainment aims at generating specific historical knowledge concerning processes of production, circulation, and management of natural history narratives and the associated struggles for meaning within the socio-ecological relations involved. These processes take place ultimately in the socio-cultural space of communication, where media outputs, broadly understood, account for the development and interaction of subjectivities, and the eventual creation of agent and non-agent subjects. The city is a powerful storyteller that can only be understood with the countryside through one another. Upon a relational perspective, this book provides a rather diverse while deeply interrelated collection of case studies of urban-based production and circulation of narratives about nature. Altogether, these cases probe the complex relationships among scientific authority, public awareness, policymaking, corporate and political interests, and environmental advocacy, in effect expanding the interdisciplinary linking of urban and environmental history within a global history view.

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"Nature has been narrated as dangerous, backward, salvific, and endangered. This book looks to cities for the mechanisms of production, development, and circulation nodes of some of these narratives. Through carefully chosen and researched cases studies, mostly located in 20th-century Spain and Great Britain, the essays in this edited volume compellingly show the transnational networks of media, experts, businesses, and activists that re-imagined non-urban landscapes from cities. From these studies, cities themselves emerge as contested spaces with porous walls traversed, often in unexpected ways, by the very natural entities that urban dwellers sought to tame through their storytelling." -- Lino Camprubi, University of Seville

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