A Companion to Spanish Environmental Cultural Studies

Edited by Luis I. Prádanos

Explores how writers, artists, and filmmakers expose the costs and contests of the Capitalocene era and guides readers through the rapidly developing field of Spanish environmental cultural studies.

List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Spanish Environmental Cultural StudiesPART I: ENVIRONMENTAL CULTURAL HISTORY AND POLITICAL ECOLOGY1.Political Ecology in Spain2. Modern Iberian History at the Culture-Environment Interface: Cultures of Nature, Modernization, and the AnthropocenePART II: WATER AND POWER3. Roots Under the Water: Dams, Displacement, and Memory in Franco's Spain (1950-1967)4. The Message in a Bottle: Waterworks in Modern and Contemporary Spain5.Soil, Water, and Light: Aerial Photography and Agriculture in SpainPART III: ECOLOGIES OF MEMORY AND EXTRACTIVISM6.Developmentalism and the Political Unconsciousness: The Spanish Forms of Necro-Extractivism, from the Civil War to Neoliberal Democracy7.S(h)ifting through the Wreckage8.The Valley of the Fallen: From Francoist Environmentalism to DemocraticEco-MemorialsPART IV: ANIMAL STUDIES AND MULTISPECIES ETHNOGRAPHIES9.Multispecies Ethnographies in the World of Things (Crematorio and En la orilla by Rafael Chirbes and Óliver Laxe's O que arde): On the Need to Ecologize Humanities10.What's in a Name? Animals and Humanities Biogeography11.Ready-to-Hand: The Withdrawal of Animal Life in Francoist Cultural ProductionPART V: FOOD STUDIES AND EXPLOITATIVE ECOLOGIES12.Spain's Gastronomy: Capitalism and Reproductive Labor13.Intensive Industrial Livestock Production: Envisioning the Burden on Animals and the EnvironmentPART VI: ECOFEMINISM14.Early Ecofeminism in Spain: El metal de los Muertos (1920) and Mineros (1932), (anti)Mining Literary Interventions by Concha Espina, Carmen Conde, and María Cegarra15. Spanish EcofeminismPART VII: (NEO)COLONIAL AND RACIALIZED ECOLOGIES16. Disaster, Coloniality, and the Franco Dictatorship17. From Racial Contaminant to Nutrient in Spain's Ecological FuturePART VIII: TOURISM AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGINATION18. From Pleasant Difference to Ecological Concern: Cultural Imaginaries of Tourism in Contemporary Spain19.The Gaze on the Tourist: Critical Approaches in Spanish Environmental HumanitiesPART IX: ECO-MEDIATION AND REPRESENTATION20.Ecopoetics21.Spanish Film and the Environment22.Environmental Politics, Ecological Thought, and Spanish ComicsPART X: TRASH AND DISCARD STUDIES23.Enlightened Waste: Burials, Disease, and Public Health in Eighteenth-Century Spain24.Aesthetics and the Political Ecology of Spanish Waste Space25.Discard Studies and Spanish Narrative26.Everything is Rubbish/Nothing is Rubbish: Basurama and the "Trashformation" of Public SpaceBibliographyIndex