Gardens and Human Agency in the Anthropocene (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Diogo, Maria Paula; Scarso, Davide; Simões, Ana; Duarte Rodrigues, Ana

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume discusses gardens as designed landscapes of mediation between nature and culture, embodying different levels of human control over wilderness, defining specific rules for this confrontation and staging different forms of human dominance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351170222
• Artikelnr.: 56898146

Autorenporträt

Maria Paula Diogo is Full Professor of History of Technology and Coordinator of the Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT), School of Sciences and Technology, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal. Ana Duarte Rodrigues is Research Fellow of the Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT), School of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Ana Simões is Full Professor of History of Science, Co-Coordinator of the Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT), School of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal, and President of the European Society for the History of Science. Davide Scarso is a Post-Doc Researcher at the Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT), School of Sciences and Technology, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Hygiene, Education and Art: Roberto Burle Marx's 1930s
Modern Gardens in Brazil 2. Between the Nuclear Lab and the Backyard:
Artificially Enhanced Plant-Breeding and the British Atomic Gardening
Movement - 3. Urban utopias and the Anthropocene 4. Shaping Colonial
Landscapes in the early 20th century: Urban Planning and Health Policies in
Lourenço Marques 5. From Pairidaeza to Planet Garden: The homo-gardinus
against Desertification 6. From Homo Faber to Homo Hortensis: Gardening
Techniques in the Anthropocene 7. The Distant Gardener: Remote Sensing of
the Planetary Potager 8. Resistance in the Garden: Nature and Society in
the Anthropocene 9. A New Machine in the Garden? Staging Technospheres in
the Anthropocene 10. The Atom in the Garden and the Apocalyptic Fungi: a
Tale on a Global Nuclearscape (with artworks and bird-songs) 11.
Inhabitants: Image Politics in ongoing Climate Crisis 12. Troubled Gardens:
Nature-technoculture binary and the search for a Safe Operating Space in
Hayao Miyazaki's