The anti-landscape /

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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Other Authors: Nye, David E., 1946-, Elkind, Sarah S., 1963-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Amsterdam : Rodopi B.V., 2014.

Series: Studies in Environmental Humanities 1.
Rodopi Religion, Theology and Philosophy Special E-Book Collection, 2007-2014, ISBN: 9789004357938.

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Call Number: BH301.L3 A58 2014

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.