England’s Green
Nature and Culture since the 1960s
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2024
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78914-921-0 (ISBN)
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78914-921-0 (ISBN)
Explores English national identity and the environment, spanning agriculture, nature and culture.
England is known as a ‘green and pleasant’ land, but what does this mean? England’s Green explores how the country’s connection with the environment has shaped and reflected English national identity since the 1960s, when pollution, pesticides, industrial farming and upset ecologies were presented as signs of a world gone wrong. This book examines English cultures of nature, land, farming and other ways in which humans engage with the natural world; or with a world whose naturalness seems increasingly pressured and in question.
From agriculture to nature, leisure, climate change, the folkloric, the archaeological and the mystical, David Matless uncovers the genealogies of today’s debates over land and culture, showing how twenty-first-century concerns and anxieties have been moulded by events over the past sixty years. From government policy to popular music, and from ecological polemic to television comedy, England’s Green shows the richness and complexity of English environmental culture.
England is known as a ‘green and pleasant’ land, but what does this mean? England’s Green explores how the country’s connection with the environment has shaped and reflected English national identity since the 1960s, when pollution, pesticides, industrial farming and upset ecologies were presented as signs of a world gone wrong. This book examines English cultures of nature, land, farming and other ways in which humans engage with the natural world; or with a world whose naturalness seems increasingly pressured and in question.
From agriculture to nature, leisure, climate change, the folkloric, the archaeological and the mystical, David Matless uncovers the genealogies of today’s debates over land and culture, showing how twenty-first-century concerns and anxieties have been moulded by events over the past sixty years. From government policy to popular music, and from ecological polemic to television comedy, England’s Green shows the richness and complexity of English environmental culture.
David Matless is Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Nottingham. His books include Landscape and Englishness (revd edn 2016) and About England (2023), both published by Reaktion Books, as well as In the Nature of Landscape: Cultural Geography on the Norfolk Broads (2014).
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.08.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 56 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78914-921-5 / 1789149215 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78914-921-0 / 9781789149210 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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