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This book invokes the relationship between nature and urban contexts as powerful storytellers through a timely contribution to the historical understanding of our mechanisms of production of narratives about nature, therefore breaking new ground for current and future research for locally situated and globally shared environmental concerns.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Narrating Nature from the City
Part I: Between Academia and Activism
Chapter 1: Miquel Crusafont and Sabadell: Narratives about Paleontology (Spain, 1950�73)
Chapter 2: Environmentalism in Transition
Part II: Between Knowledge and Entertainment
Chapter 3: Wild at Heart: Zoological Gardens and the Urban Space
Chapter 4: Mass Media and Urban Animals in History: The View from Interwar Britain
Chapter 5: Teaching and Tinkering with Personal Computers in Catalan Rural Schools and Summer Camps (Spain, 1980s�90s)
Part III: Between Film and Literature
Chapter 6: The Countryside in the Frame: Film Representations of Nature under Franco's Dictatorship
Chapter 7: Hunting Narratives in Twentieth-Century Spain: The Case of Miquel Delibes
Chapter 8: From El Modena to Terminator: Imagining Green Utopian Places for the Anthropocene
Part IV: Between Natural History and Television
Chapter 9: Percy Smith: The Triple Liminality of an Urban Natural History Filmmaker in Interwar Britain
Chapter 10: The Granada TV and Film Unit at the London Zoo: "Creating Adequate Opportunity for Observing Patterns for Amateur and Professional Zoologists Alike"
Chapter 11: Televising Nature as Modernization: El Hombre y la Tierra (Man and the Earth, 1974�81) in 1970s Spain
Afterword: City of Silence, City of Stories: Or of Ghosts, Doors, and Subversion
About the Contributors
About the author
Carlos Tabernero is associate professor in the Institute of History and Science at The Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Summary
This book invokes the relationship between nature and urban contexts as powerful storytellers through a timely contribution to the historical understanding of our mechanisms of production of narratives about nature, therefore breaking new ground for current and future research for locally situated and globally shared environmental concerns.
