ABSTRACT

The development of the environmental movement has relied heavily upon written and visual imagery. Representing the Environment offers an introductory guide to representations of the environment found in the media, literature, art and everyday life encounters.

Featuring case studies from Europe, the Americas and Australia, Representing the Environment provides practical guidance on how to study environmental representations from a cultural and historic perspective, and places the reader in the role of active interpreter. The book argues that studying representations provides an important lens on the development of environmental attitudes, values and decision-making.

chapter 1|5 pages

Introduction

chapter |8 pages

Exercise 1.2

chapter 2|1 pages

Studying environmental representations

chapter |1 pages

Representing road protest

chapter |3 pages

Exercise 2.1

chapter |9 pages

Discussion

chapter |7 pages

Exercise 2.2

chapter |1 pages

Exercise 2.6

chapter |1 pages

Further reading

chapter 3|9 pages

Representations in context

chapter |4 pages

Exercise 3.2

chapter |14 pages

Exercise 3.3

chapter |3 pages

Monsanto

chapter |3 pages

Cultural politics

chapter |4 pages

Exercise 3.10

chapter |4 pages

Discourse and hybridity

chapter |2 pages

Further reading

chapter |23 pages

Nature

chapter |9 pages

Mother Nature

chapter 9|3 pages

Conclusion

chapter 5|2 pages

Enlightenment and Romanticism

chapter |21 pages

Spectating and the ownership of land

chapter |2 pages

The picturesque

chapter |9 pages

Exercise 5.3

chapter 9|4 pages

Conclusion

chapter 6|7 pages

Empire, exploitation and control

chapter |11 pages

Exercise 6.1

chapter |1 pages

Fantasy and the exotic

chapter |5 pages

Orientalism and Otherness

chapter |1 pages

Exercise 6.5

chapter |1 pages

Further reading

chapter 7|29 pages

Representing urban environments

chapter 9|1 pages

Conclusion

chapter |1 pages

Further reading

chapter 8|10 pages

Historic cities, future cities

chapter |18 pages

Narratives of heritage

chapter |1 pages

Further reading

chapter 9|8 pages

Conclusion