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 | : | 4.48 (643 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0816530440 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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“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
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. They also take seriously the potential of these intersections and how they may facilitate other alignments and imaginings that may become the basis of alternatives to our current socioecological predicaments. Just as importantly, they are connected—and disconnected—in our imaginations. They show how these intersections figure in a strengthening and problematic policy consensus in which economic growth and ecosystem health are cast as mutually necessitating conditions. . Today crisis appears to be the normal order of things. These crises are interconnected ecologically, economically, and politically. In The Nature of Spectacle, Jim Igoe embarks on multifaceted explorations of how we imagine nature and how nature shapes our imaginations. We seem to be turning in widening gyres of economic failure, species extinction, resource scarcity, war, and climate change. Public imaginations are possibly the most important stage on which crises are played out, fo