Water in Social Imagination

From Technological Optimism to Contemporary Environmentalism

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Produktbeschreibung

Water in Social Imagination studies meanings of water in cultural and environmental contexts, from medieval Stockholm to post-Soviet Russia. Authors consider both state policy and modern technologies along with creative resistance to the exploitative imagination.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9789004333260
• ISBN-10: 9004333266
• Artikelnr.: 45589369

Autorenporträt

Jane Costlow, Ph.D. Yale (1987) is Professor of Environmental Studies at Bates College. She has published extensively on 19th century Russian literature and culture, and is the author of Heart-Pine Russia: Walking and Writing the Nineteenth-Century Forest (2013). Yrjö Haila, Ph.D. University of Helsinki (1983), professor of environmental policy (emeritus) at the University of Tampere, has explored the nature-society interface; books include Humanity and Nature (with Richard Levins, 1992), and How Nature Speaks (co-editor Chuck Dyke, 2006). Arja Rosenholm, Ph.D. University of Tampere (1999), is professor of Russian language and culture at that university. She has co-edited Understanding Russian Nature (2005), Russian Mass Media and Changing Values (2010) and Topographies and Popular Culture (2015).