England's green: nature and culture since the 1960s

"England is known as a 'green and pleasant' land, but what does that 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...

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Main Author: Matless, David (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London, UK Reaktion Books 2024
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Summary:"England is known as a 'green and pleasant' land, but what does that 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 and 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." ---Book jacket
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis Seite 335-354. Disko- und Filmographie Seite 355-360. - Index
Physical Description:373 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9781789149210

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