The roots of environmental consciousness : popular tradition and personal experience / edited by Stephen Hussey and Paul Thompson.
| Other author | Hussey, Stephen, 1967- |
| Other author | Thompson, Paul, 1935- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, 2000. |
| Description | viii, 226 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge studies in memory and narrative ; 6 Routledge studies in memory and narrative ; 6. ^A531120 |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| LCCN | 00042212 |
| ISBN | 0415242592 (alk. paper) |