A Companion to Spanish Environmental Cultural Studies by Luis... - 9781855663695

A Companion to Spanish Environmental Cultural StudiesAuthor(s): Luis I Prdanos, Luis I Prdanos, Maria Antnia Mart Escayol, Santiago Gorostiza, Daniel Ares-Lpez, Ana Fernndez-Cebrin, John H Trevathan, Tatjana Gaji?, Germn Labrador Mndez, Ofelia Ferrn\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Tamesis Books\nISBN-13: 9781855663695, 978-1855663695\nSynopsis\nAn exploration of how writers, artists, and filmmakers expose the costs and contest the assumptions of the Capitalocene era that guides readers through the rapidly developing field of Spanish environmental cultural studies.\n\nFrom the scars left by Franco's dams and mines to the toxic waste dumped in Equatorial Guinea, from the cruelty of the modern pork industry to the ravages of mass tourism in the Balearic Islands, this book delves into the power relations, material practices and social imaginaries underpinning the global economic system to uncover its unaffordable human and non-human costs.e