The anti-landscape / / edited by David E. Nye and Sarah Elkind.
There have always been some uninhabitable places, but in the last century human beings have produced many more of them. These anti-landscapes have proliferated to include the sandy wastes of what was once the Aral Sea, severely polluted irrigated lands, open pit mines, blighted nuclear zones, coasta...
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| Superior document: | Studies in environmental humanities ; 1 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Rodopi B.V.,, 2014. |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Environmental Humanities
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (217 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- The Anti-Landscape / David E. Nye
- Skyscapes and Anti-skyscapes: Making the Invisible Visible / James Rodger Fleming
- Step after Step the Ladder is Ascended Human agency in Irrigated (anti) Landscapes / Maurits W. Ertsen
- Landscape, Anti-landscape and the Western Political Imagination: J.B. Jackson’s Challenge to Environmentalism / Mark Luccarelli
- Modernism and the Creation of Anti-Landscapes: The Valley of Ashes in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Los Angeles in Chandler’s The Big Sleep / Anna Flügge
- A Landscape of Fear: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road / Øyunn Hestetun
- Anesthetic Landscapes: Reflections on the photography of John Ganis / Hannes Bergthaller
- Fear and Fascination: Anti-Landscapes between Material Resistance and Material Transcendence / Werner Bigell
- Lost Landscapes: Degraded Landscape as Anti-Landscape / Maunu Häyrynen
- Landscapes of Waste: Malmberget and Ignalina as Cultural Tools in Heritage Processes / Anna Storm
- Reinventing New York’s High Line / Nikolet Jensen
- View from the Dump: Stige Ø and the Question of Anti-Landscapes / Sarah S. Elkind
- Contributors
- Index.