Urban Narratives about Nature: Socio-Ecological Imaginaries between Science and Entertainment

Carlos Tabernero

doi:10.5771/9781666950618

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Edition: 1/2024
Copyright year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-5060-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-5061-8
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 300
Product type: Edited Book

Preface No access Pages i - x
1. Notes No access
2. Bibliography No access
1. 1. A Public and Scientific Figure from a Town Called Sabadell No access
  2. Whose Digs and Collections? No access
  3. The Defense of Paleontology as the Science of Evolution I: From national-Catholic Spain to English-speaking Neo-Darwinists No access
  4. The Defense of Paleontology as the Science of Evolution II: The Disciplinary Battle No access
  5. The Defense of Paleontology as the Science of Evolution III: Teilhard vs Monod No access
  6. “I Have Already Said Everything I Needed to Say” No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Patriotic Conservation No access
  2. Little Corners of Freedom No access
  3. Beyond Nature Conservation No access
  4. Political Difficulties No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
1. 1. The Zooscape of the Nineteenth Century No access
  2. The Place of the Zoo in the City No access
  3. The Zoo as a City No access
  4. The Jungle of the City No access
  5. The Zoo and Urban Consumption No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Animals and Mass Media’s Materials No access
  2. Pets No access
  3. The Spectacle of Urban Animals No access
  4. Nature Films and the City No access
  5. Pests No access
  6. Animals Sounds and the City No access
  7. Children No access
  8. Conclusion No access
  9. Notes No access
  10. Bibliography No access
3. 1. Introduction to Catalan Rural Schools No access
  2. Rural Schools during the Process of the So-called Spanish Transición No access
  3. The Origins of Summer Camps No access
  4. Overview of the Integration of IT in Educational Centers in Catalonia No access
  5. Teacher Training in Educational Computing and the Telematic Educational Network of Catalonia No access
  6. The Learning of Personal Computing Skills in Rural Schools and Summer Camps No access
  7. Nature was (Not) Just (in) the Background No access
  8. Notes No access
  9. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Some Background No access
  2. Rural-based Autarky and the Religious Morality of the Family No access
  3. The Weather is to Blame, and Evil Dwells in the City No access
  4. “Where the Snows Start the Course of Rivers” No access
  5. Have You Guessed Yet? That Dream Land was Spain No access
  6. Contempt of Court and Praise for the Village No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Hunting in Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature: Diario de un cazador (1955) No access
  2. The Emergence of the Hunting Narrative No access
  3. Delibes’s Collaboration on Other Publishing Initiatives on Hunting No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. Bibliography No access
3. 1. From El Modena to Terminator No access
  2. 2312’s Terran Return: Anthropocene Utopia No access
  3. Conclusion: Civic Love No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Percy Smith No access
  2. The Performance of Percy Smith No access
  3. Vernacular Modernity No access
  4. Amateur Scientist No access
  5. Inventor No access
  6. Between Science and Entertainment No access
  7. Theorising Performance No access
  8. Conclusion No access
  9. Notes No access
  10. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Early Attempts at Controlling the Camera at the Zoo No access
  2. The London Zoo and Television before 1955 No access
  3. 1955: The Granada and Zoological Society TV and Film Unit No access
  4. Defending the Heuristic Value of Captivity for Ethology No access
  5. The Return of the Repressed No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. Bibliography No access
3. 1. Falconry, Science, and Spain No access
  2. Tourism, the Rural and the Urban, and Natural History Television No access
  3. Filming Scientific Expeditions No access
  4. The Audiences’ Backyard No access
  5. Coda: Urban Couch Activism No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
1. A City of Two Tales No access
2. Seizing the City No access
3. Notes No access
4. Bibliography No access
Index No access Pages 275 - 296
About the Contributors No access Pages 297 - 300