The Nature of Spectacle : On Images, Money, and Conserving Capitalism Paperback / softback
by James Igoe
Part of the Critical Green Engagements: Investigating the Green Economy and its Alternatives series
Paperback / softback
Description
In The Nature of Spectacle, Jim Igoe embarks on multifaceted explorations of how we imagine nature and how nature shapes our imaginations.
The book traces spectacular productions of imagined nature across time and space-from African nature tourism to transnational policy events to green consumer appeals in which the push of a virtual button appears to initiate a chain of events resulting in the protection of polar bears in the Arctic or jaguars in the Amazon rainforest.
These explorations illuminate the often surprising intersections of consumerism, entertainment, and environmental policy.
They show how these intersections figure in a strengthening and problematic policy consensus in which economic growth and ecosystem health are cast as mutually necessitating conditions.
They also take seriously the potential of these intersections and how they may facilitate other alignment and imaginings that may become the basis of alternatives to our current socioecological predicaments.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:184 pages, 4 maps
- Publisher:University of Arizona Press
- Publication Date:30/09/2017
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- ISBN:9780816530441
Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:184 pages, 4 maps
- Publisher:University of Arizona Press
- Publication Date:30/09/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9780816530441
