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Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures ; 19 |
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Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone cultures ; 19.
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IntroductionPart I: Spanish Culture and Ecological EconomicsChapter 1: Toward an Ecocritical Approach to the Spanish Neoliberal CrisisPart II: Urban EcologiesChapter 2: Urban Ecocriticism and Spanish Cultural StudiesPart III: Waste, Disaster, Refugees, and Nonhuman AgencyChapter 3: Nonhuman Agency and the Political Ecology of WasteChapter 4: Disaster Fiction, the Pedagogy of Catastrophe, and the Dominant ImaginaryConclusion: The Global Rise of Postgrowth Imaginaries. |
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<Div><b>An Open Access edition of this work is available on Modern Languages Open (<a href=https://www.modernlanguagesopen.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.modernlanguagesopen.org/</a>)</b></div> <div><i>Postgrowth Imaginaries</i> brings together environmental cultural studies and postgrowth economics to examine counterhegemonic narratives and radical cultural shifts sparked by the global financial crisis of 2008. A number of critical voices worldwide have emphasized that in the context of a finite biosphere, constant economic growth is a biophysical impossibility. The problem is not a lack of growth but rather the globalization of an economic system addicted to constant growth, which destroys the ecological planetary systems that support life on Earth while failing to fulfil its social promises. Post-2008 Spain offers an optimal context to investigate these cultural processes, and this book demonstrates that a transition toward what Prádanos calls 'postgrowth imaginaries'-the counterhegemonic cultural sensibilities that are challenging the growth paradigm in manifold ways-is well underway in the Iberian Peninsula today. Specifically, this book explores how emerging cultural sensibilities in Spain-reflected in fiction and nonfiction writing and film, television programs, photographs and graphic novels, op-eds, web pages, political manifestos, and socioecological movements-are actively detaching themselves from the dominant imaginary of economic growth. By approaching the counterhegemonic cultures of the crisis through environmental criticism, Postgrowth Imaginaries uncovers a whole range of cultural nuances often ignored by Iberian cultural studies. [This work] constitutes an urgent, enlightening, and empowering reflection about a crucial subject of our time. Its main focus and virtue is to provide with sound intellectual tools to think about the fundamental danger that the growth paradigm (and particularly its capitalist version) means for humanity and planet Earth. It also opens the discussion about the possibility of a "post-growth" world. [...] The book takes a special interest in studying the academic and disciplinary implications of this debate: what does it mean for humanities, cultural studies, urban studies, and, particularly for Iberian studies to take seriously the ecological crisis and the threat that the growth paradigm means? The claim is not for just a change of subjects of study in these disciplines, but moreover for a change in the way we think.' Luis Moreno-Caballud, University of Pennsylvania 'Prádanos's book will become a necessary reference for all those who will subsequently write about post-growth, environmental studies in the Spanish/Iberian context and related subjects.' Katarzyna Olga Beilin, University of Wisconsin 'The book is sure to engage Iberian and other cultural scholars. [...] throughout the book Prádanos analyses an impressively wide array of cultural productions-from the habitual novels, films, and documentaries to graphic novels and cartoons, songs, and an "audiovisual experiment," a website, a street mural in Madrid, and even an art installation made entirely of garbage-all of which call attention to the excesses and failures of the neoliberal growth fantasy.' Mònica Tomàs, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment |
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Environmental Humanities in the Anthropocene -- The Dominant Imaginary of Economic Growth and Its Social and Ecological Crises -- Environmental Cultural Studies: Challenging Neoliberal Fantasies to Overcome the Crisis of Political Imagination -- Part I: Spanish Culture and Postgrowth Economics -- Chapter 1. Towards an Ecocritical Approach to the Spanish Neoliberal Crisis -- 1.1 Cultural Responses to the Spanish Neoliberal Crisis and the Global Ecocritical Turn -- 1.1.1. Social and Ecological Context -- 1.1.2. Culture of Transition and Culture of Crisis: Historical Iterations of the Growth Imaginary in Spain -- 1.1.3. Post-Development: Towards a Decolonial Spanish Cultural Approach -- 1.2. Spanish Ecocriticism and Ecological Economics: A Great Duet -- 1.2.1. Ecological Economics -- 1.2.2. The Proliferation of Iberian Socioecological Essasys -- 1.3 Challenging Acceleration and Techno-Optimism: The Case for a Euro-Mediterranean Degrowth-Inspired Ecocriticism -- 1.3.1. Degrowth and Slow Movement -- 1.3.2. Questioning Acceleration and Techno-Optimism -- Part II: Urban Ecologies -- Chapter 2. Urban Ecocriticism and Spanish Cultural Studies -- 2.1. Spanish Urban Ecocriticism -- 2.1.1. Metabolic Rift and Urban Metabolism -- 2.1.2. Towards Postgrowth Urban Imaginaries -- 2.2 Interpretative Typology -- 2.2.1. The Crisis of the Urban Growth Machine: Challenging Petromodernity -- 2.2.2. Urban Collapse and Post-Petroleum Futures -- 2.2.3. Non-Urban Spaces and Neo-Ruralization: Escaping the Urban Growth Machine? -- 2.2.4. Postgrowth Urban Imaginaries: Imagining and Performing the Ecopolist -- Part III: Waste, Disaster, Refugees, and Nonhuman Agency -- Chapter 3. Nonhuman Agency and the Political Ecology of Waste -- 3.1. Politics and Aesthetics of Garbage in Post-2008 Spanish Culture. |
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3.2. Soft Pollution, Social Metabolism, and Surplus Population -- Chapter 4. Disaster Fiction, the Pedagogy of Catastrophe, and the Dominant Imaginary -- 4.1. El barco -- 4.2. The impossible -- Conclusion: The Global Rise of Postgrowth Imaginaries -- Selected Bibliography -- Index. |
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Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- Spain.
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Spain -- History -- 21st century.
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Spain -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
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Spain -- Environmental conditions -- 21st century.
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Développement économique -- Aspect de l'environnement -- Espagne.
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Espagne -- Histoire -- 21e siècle.
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Espagne -- Conditions économiques -- 21e siècle.
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HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal
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Ecology
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Economic development -- Environmental aspects
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Economic history
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Spain
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2000-2099
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Counterhegemonic Economic Cultures |
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Degrowth |
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Crisis in Spain |
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Economic Cultures |
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Postgrowth Economics |
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Contemporary Spanish Culture |
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Environmental Humanities |
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21st Century Spain |
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Ecocriticism |
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Crisis |
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Spanish Cultural Studies |
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History
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Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR |
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Print version: 9781786941343 |
| ISBN |
1786949369 |
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1786941341 |
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9781786941343 |
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9781786949363 (electronic bk.) |
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UKMGB 019143292 |
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AU@ 000066658489 |
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DKDLA 820120-katalog:999909507005765 |
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