{"product_id":"wild-things-nature-and-the-social-imagination-9781874267751","title":"Wild Things. Nature and the Social Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): William Beinart | Karen Middleton | Simon Pooley\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: White Horse Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: White Horse Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Animals - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHISTORIES OF HUMAN CONSTRUCTIONS OF NATURE Wild Things: Nature and the Social Imagination assembles eleven substantive and original essays on the cultural and social dimensions of environmental history. They address a global cornucopia of social and ecological systems, from Africa to Europe, North America and the Caribbean, and their temporal range extends from the 1830s into the twenty-first century. The imaginative (and actual) construction of landscapes and the appropriation of Nature - through image-fashioning, curating museum and zoo collections, making 'friends', 'enemies' and mythical symbols from animals - are recurring subjects. Among the volume's thought-provoking essays are a group enmeshing nature and the visual culture of photography and film. Canonical environmental history themes, from colonialism to conservation, are re-inflected by discourses including gender studies, Romanticism, politics and technology. The loci of the studies included here represent both the microcosmic - underwater laboratory, zoo, film studio; and broad canvases - the German forest, the Rocky Mountains, the islands of Haiti and Madagascar. Their casts too are richly varied - from Britain's otters and Africa's Nile crocodiles to Hollywood film-makers and South African cattle. The volume represents an excitingly diverse collection of studies of how humans, in imagination and deed, act on and are acted on by 'wild things'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46491826552983,"sku":"9781874267751","price":8927.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781874267751.jpg?v=1766350623","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/wild-things-nature-and-the-social-imagination-9781874267751","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}