The Culture of Nature

North American Landscape from Disney to Exxon Valdez

Alexander Wilson

• Editore: Between the Lines
• Anno: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781771134118
• Edizione: 2
• Argomento: Scienze biologiche
• Categoria: Conservazione e Tutela dell'Ambiente

Since it was first published in 1991, few books have come close to capturing the depth and breadth of Alexander Wilson's innovative ecocultural compendium The Culture of Nature. His work was one of the first of its kind to investigate the ideology of the environment, to critique the future according to Disney, and illustrate that the ways we think, teach, talk about, and construct the natural world are as important a terrain as the land itself. Extensively illustrated and meticulously researched, this edition is exquisitely revised and reissued for the Anthropocene.

Indice dei contenuti

• Cover
• Praise
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword to the second edition
• Introduction
• 1. The View from the Road: Recreation and Tourism
• 2. Nature Education and Promotion
• 3. Nature at Home: A Social Ecology of Postwar Landscape Design
• 4. Looking at the Non-Human: Nature Movies and TV
• 5. Technological Utopias: World’s Fairs and Theme Parks
• 6. City and Country
• 7. From Reserve to Microenvironment: Nature Parks and Zoos
• 8. On The Frontiers of Capital: Nuclear Plants and Other Environmental Architectures
• Notes on Sources
• Picture Credits
• Index