This book examines the roots of contemporary environmental consciousness and action in terms of both popular experience and tradition. A wide range of geographical and thematic case-studies explore the myth, tradition and collective memory that shape our environmental thought. Containing a wealth of empirical source material, this book will be invaluable for sociologists and historians alike.
Author(s): Paul Thompson, Stephen Hussey
Series: Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative, 6
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 240
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Notes on contributors......Page 8
INTRODUCTION: THE ROOTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS Popular tradition and personal experience......Page 10
THE ENGLISH, THE TREES, THE WILD AND THE GREEN Two millennia of mythological metamorphoses......Page 29
ANIMALS, CHILDREN AND PEASANTS IN TUSCANY A note on the San Gersole archive......Page 64
NARRATING NATURE Perceptions of the environment and attitudes towards it in life stories......Page 72
WHEN THE WATER COMES Memories of survival after the 1953 flood......Page 85
'OUR LAND IS OUR ONLY WEALTH' Changing relationships with the environment......Page 100
USING COMMUNITY MEMORY AGAINST THE ONSLAUGHT OF DEVELOPMENT A case study of successful resettlement in Zapata, Texas......Page 118
SIGNS OF THINGS TO COME Metaphor and environmental consciousness in a Yucatecan community......Page 134
THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT IN KAZAKSTAN Ecology, democracy and nationalism......Page 148
PATHS TO ECOFEMINIST ACTIVISM Life stories from the north-east of England......Page 169
PATHWAYS TO THE AMAZON British campaigners in the Brazilian rainforest......Page 183
REVIEWS......Page 209
Name index......Page 223
Subject index......Page 227
