Luis I Prádanos 
A Companion to Spanish Environmental Cultural Studies [EPUB ebook] 

An exploration of how writers, artists, and filmmakers expose the costs and contest the assumptions of the Capitalocene era that guides readers through the rapidly developing field of Spanish environmental cultural studies.


From the scars left by Franco’s dams and mines to the toxic waste dumped in Equatorial Guinea, from the cruelty of the modern pork industry to the ravages of mass tourism in the Balearic Islands, this book delves into the power relations, material practices and social imaginaries underpinning the global economic system to uncover its unaffordable human and non-human costs. Guiding the reader through the rapidly emerging field of Spanish environmental cultural studies, with chapters on such topics as extractivism, animal studies, food studies, ecofeminism, decoloniality, critical race studies, tourism, and waste studies, an international team of US and European scholars show how Spanish writers, artists, and filmmakers have illuminated and contested the growth-oriented and neo-colonialist assumptions of the current Capitalocene era. Focussed on Spain, the volume also provides models for exploring the socioecological implications of cultural manifestations in other parts of the world.


CONTRIBUTORS: Eugenia Afinoguénova, Samuel Amago, Daniel Ares-López, Kata Beilin, John Beusterien, Miguel Caballero Vázquez, Jorge Catalá, Glen S. Close, Jeffrey K. Coleman, Jamie de Moya-Cotter, Ana Fernández-Cebrián, Ofelia Ferrán, Tatjana Gajic , Pedro García-Caro, Santiago Gorostiza, Germán Labrador Méndez, Maryanne L. Leone, Shanna Lino, Jorge Marí, José Manuel Marrero Henríquez, Maria Antònia Martí Escayol, Christine Martínez, Cristina Martínez Tejero, Micah Mc Kay, Pamela F. Phillips, Mercè Picornell, Luis I. Prádanos, Cécile Stehrenberger, John H. Trevathan, Joaquín Valdivielso, William Viestenz, Maite Zubiaurre

Table des matières

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Spanish Environmental Cultural Studies

PART I: ENVIRONMENTAL CULTURAL HISTORY AND POLITICAL ECOLOGY

1.Political Ecology in Spain

2. Modern Iberian History at the Culture-Environment Interface: Cultures of Nature, Modernization, and the Anthropocene

PART II: WATER AND POWER

3. Roots Under the Water: Dams, Displacement, and Memory in Franco’s Spain (1950-1967)

4. The Message in a Bottle: Waterworks in Modern and Contemporary Spain

5.Soil, Water, and Light: Aerial Photography and Agriculture in Spain

PART III: ECOLOGIES OF MEMORY AND EXTRACTIVISM

6.Developmentalism and the Political Unconsciousness: The Spanish Forms of Necro-Extractivism, from the Civil War to Neoliberal Democracy

7.S(h)ifting through the Wreckage

8.The Valley of the Fallen: From Francoist Environmentalism to Democratic Eco-Memorials

PART IV: ANIMAL STUDIES AND MULTISPECIES ETHNOGRAPHIES

9.Multispecies Ethnographies in the World of Things (Crematorio and En la orilla by Rafael Chirbes and Óliver Laxe’s O que arde): On the Need to Ecologize Humanities

10.What’s in a Name? Animals and Humanities Biogeography

11.Ready-to-Hand: The Withdrawal of Animal Life in Francoist Cultural Production

PART V: FOOD STUDIES AND EXPLOITATIVE ECOLOGIES

12.Spain’s Gastronomy: Capitalism and Reproductive Labor

13.Intensive Industrial Livestock Production: Envisioning the Burden on Animals and the Environment

PART VI: ECOFEMINISM

14.Early Ecofeminism in Spain: El metal de los Muertos (1920) and Mineros (1932), (anti)Mining Literary Interventions by Concha Espina, Carmen Conde, and María Cegarra

15. Spanish Ecofeminism

PART VII: (NEO)COLONIAL AND RACIALIZED ECOLOGIES

16. Disaster, Coloniality, and the Franco Dictatorship

17. From Racial Contaminant to Nutrient in Spain’s Ecological Future

PART VIII: TOURISM AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGINATION

18. From Pleasant Difference to Ecological Concern: Cultural Imaginaries of Tourism in Contemporary Spain

19.The Gaze on the Tourist: Critical Approaches in Spanish Environmental Humanities

PART IX: ECO-MEDIATION AND REPRESENTATION

20.Ecopoetics

21.Spanish Film and the Environment

22.Environmental Politics, Ecological Thought, and Spanish Comics

PART X: TRASH AND DISCARD STUDIES

23.Enlightened Waste: Burials, Disease, and Public Health in Eighteenth-Century Spain

24.Aesthetics and the Political Ecology of Spanish Waste Space

25.Discard Studies and Spanish Narrative

26.Everything is Rubbish/Nothing is Rubbish: Basurama and the ‘Trashformation’ of Public Space

Bibliography

Index

A propos de l’auteur

LUIS I. PRÁDANOS is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Miami University, Ohio.