The roots of environmental consciousness : popular tradition and personal experience /
This book examines the roots of contemporary environmental consciousness and action in terms of both popular experience and tradition. A wide range of case-studies explore traditions and myths that shape our environmental thought.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2000.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in memory and narrative ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : The roots of environmental consciousness : popular tradition and personal experience / Stephen Hussey and Paul Thompson
- The English, the trees, the wild and the green : two millennia of mythological metamorphoses / Paul Thompson
- Animals, children and peasants in Tuscany : a note on the San Gersolé archive / Giovanni Contini
- Narrating nature : perceptions of the environment and attitudes towards it in life stories / Daniela Koleva
- When the water comes : memories of survival after the 1953 flood / Selma Leydesdorff
- 'Our land is our only wealth' : changing relationships with the environment / Olivia Bennett
- Using community memory against the onslaught of development : a case study of successful resettlement in Zapata, Texas / Jaclyn Jeffrey
- Signs of things to come : metaphor and environmental consciousness in a Yucatecan community / David W. Forrest
- The environmental movement in Kazakstan : ecology, democracy and nationalism / Timothy Edmunds
- Paths to ecofeminist activism : life stories from the north-east of England / Niamh Moore
- Pathways to the Amazon : British campaigners in the Brazilian rainforest / Andrea Zhouri
- Reviews. 'Not otherwise touchable somehow' : ecocriticism and literature / Jeff Wallace ; Archetypal history : Simon Schama's Landscape and memory / Bill Schwarz.