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Title The roots of environmental consciousness : popular tradition and personal experience / edited by Stephen Hussey and Paul Thompson.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 226 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Routledge studies in memory and narrative ; 6
Routledge studies in memory and narrative ; 6.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
Summary 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Environmentalism.
Environmentalism.
Environmental sciences.
Environmental sciences.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Hussey, Stephen, 1967- editor.
Thompson, Paul, 1935- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Roots of environmental consciousness. London ; New York : Routledge, 2000 0415242592 (DLC) 00042212 (OCoLC)44174227
ISBN 0203471113 (electronic book)
9780203471111 (electronic book)
0203779355 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader)
9780203779354 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader)
1280318058
9781280318054
9780415242592 (alkaline paper)
0415242592 (alkaline paper)