The Nature of Spectacle: On Images, Money, and Conserving Capitalism (Critical Green Engagements: Investigating the Green Economy and its Alternatives)
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (727 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0816530440 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The book traces spectacular productions of imagined nature across time and space—from African nature tourism to transnational policy events to green consumer appeals in which the push of a virtual button appears to initiate a chain of events resulting in the protection of polar bears in the Arctic or jaguars in the rainforest. These explorations illuminate the often surprising intersections of consumerism, entertainment, and environmental policy. . Just as importantly, they are connected—and disconnected—in our imaginations. Today crisis appears to be the normal order of things. We seem to be turning in widening gyres of economic failure, species extinction, resource scarcity, war, and climate change
“Igoe offers an original and provocative take on topics that couldn’t be more relevant to ongoing debates in anthropology, geography, environmental studies, and conservation studies.”—Andrew Walsh, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Western Ontario