Environmental Cultural Studies Through Time: The Luso-Hispanic World

Ed. Kata Beilin, Kathleen Connolly, Micah McKay

Introduction

Environmental Cultural Studies as a Transdisciplinary Field: Latin American and Iberian Studies

Kata Beilin and Daniel Ares López 

Energy

1. Energy Humanities and Spanish Urban Cultural Studies: A Call for a Radical Convergence 

Luis I. Prádanos

Trash

2. Trash and the Coming Community: Portrayals of Trash and Trash Workers in Argentina and Brazil

Micah McKay

Landscape

3. Local Landscapes, Global Conversations: The Case of Three Environmental Documentary Films from the Hispanic World 

Oscar Pérez

Territory

4. Attending to the Pulses of the Territory: Local Officers, National Parks and Indigenous Territories in Colombia

Paula Ungar and Julia Premauer

Soil

5. The Transformation of Brazilian Cerrados: Soil, Science and National Culture 

Claiton Marcio da Silva

Crops

6. The Skin of Soy 

Eduardo Molinari

7. The World According to Amaranth: Interspecies Memory in Tehuacán Valley  

Kata Beilin

Water 

8. Toxic Bodies: Water, and Women in Yucatan Agriculture

Angel Polanco and Kata Beilin

Dams 

9. The Corpses of Itoiz: Mapping the Hydro-Necro Assemblage in Cavando el agua by Iñigo Aranbarri  

Timothy Frye

Governance

10. Ecology without Sovereignty: Iberian Bio-Perversity in the Work of Manuel Rivas  

John H. Trevathan and William Viestenz

Urbanization

11. Lyrical Landscapes of Environmental and Ecological Thought: On Urban and “Rural” Connections  

Sarli Mercado

Animals

12. Comedy and Environmental Cultural Studies: An Image of a Spanish Rhinoceros and Sancho with his Donkey  

John Beusterien

Crisis

13. Environmental Apocalypse and the Spanish Crisis Novel  

Bécquer Seguín

Activism

14. Artemio Precioso Ugarte: An Avuncular Environmental Activist in Spain (1917-2007)

Michael Ugarte

15. The Repeating Island of Indigenous Death: On Berta Cáceres  

Christopher Kelly

Afterword

Lesley Wylie

Contributors