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  • Vajont

    The Political Ecology of an Unnatural Disaster

    by Marco Armiero ...
    Series series History for a Sustainable Future
    The sobering political implications of a disaster—the Vajont landslide in Italy in 1963—and how it speaks directly to our present environmental crisis.On October 9, 1963, 2,000 people perished in the Belluno mountains, not far from Venice, engulfed by a wave of water and mud unleashed by a massive landslide that crashed into the basin at the foot of Mount Toc. Science, power, and memory are ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Future Remains

    A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene

    Edited by Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero, Robert S. Emmett ...
    What can a pesticide pump, a jar full of sand, or an old calico print tell us about the Anthropocene—the age of humans? Just as paleontologists look to fossil remains to infer past conditions of life on earth, so might past and present-day objects offer clues to intertwined human and natural histories that shape our planetary futures. In this era of aggressive hydrocarbon extraction, extreme ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wasteocene

    Stories from the Global Dump

    by Marco Armiero ...
    Series series Elements in Environmental Humanities
    Humans may live in the Anthropocene, but this does not affect all in the same way. How would the Anthropocene look if, instead of searching its traces in the geosphere, researchers would look for them in the organosphere, in the ecologies of humans in their entanglements with the environment? Looking at this embodied stratigraphy of power and toxicity, more than the Anthropocene, we will discover ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Italy and the Environmental Humanities

    Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies

    by Serenella Iovino, Enrico Cesaretti, Elena Past, Marco Armiero, Franco Arminio, Professor Patrick Barron, PhD, Damiano Benvegnù, Viktor Berberi0, Rosi Braidotti1, Luca Bugnone2, Almo Farina3, Sophia Maxine Farmer4, Serena Ferrando5, Tiziano Fratus6, Matteo Gilebbi7, Andrea Hajek8, Marcus Hall9, Andrea Lerda0, Roberto Marchesini1, Marco Moro2, Carlo Petrini3, Monica Seger4, Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan5, Professor Pasquale Verdicchio, PhD6 ...
    Series series Under the Sign of Nature
    Bringing together new writing by some of the field’s most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy--as a territory of both matter and imagination--through the lens of the environmental humanities. The contributors offer a wide spectrum of approaches--including ecocriticism, film studies, environmental history and sociology, eco-art, and animal ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Mussolini's Nature

    An Environmental History of Italian Fascism

    by Marco Armiero, Roberta Biasillo, Wilko Graf von Hardenberg ...
    Translated by James Sievert ...
    This exploration of the environmental practices of Benito Mussolini’s fascist regime invites readers to consider the ecological connections of all political projects.“We might think we see a mountain while it was a war; a forest can actually be an engine; a monument to workers might reflect the violence of a colonial empire.”—extracted from Mussolini’s NatureIn this first environmental history of ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Resisting the Wasteocene

    Fighting the Global Dump

    Edited by Dr Marco Armiero, Francesca Gabbriellini, Claudia Marina Lanzidei, Francesco Vettori ...
    Series series Global Challenges in the Environmental Humanities
    Challenging the dominant narrative of the Anthropocene, Resisting the Wasteocene highlights wasting relationships that produce both wasted people and ecosystems. This book exposes how such relationships seek to turn communities into socioecological dumps, while also tracing their forms of resistance.Across case studies from Eastern Europe, Bangladesh, China, Senegal, Cuba, Italy, and more-and ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

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  • Rethinking Geographical Explorations in Extreme Environments

    From the Arctic to the Mountaintops

    Edited by Marco Armiero, Roberta Biasillo, Stefano Morosini ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    Focusing on extreme environments, from Umberto Nobile’s expedition to the Arctic to the commercialization of Mt Everest, this volume examines global environmental margins, how they are conceived and how perceptions have changed. Mountaintops and Arctic environments are the settings of social encounters, political strategies, individual enterprises, geopolitical tensions, decolonial practises, and ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • A History of Environmentalism

    Local Struggles, Global Histories

    Edited by Dr Marco Armiero, Professor Lise Sedrez ...
    'Think globally, act locally' has become a call to environmentalist mobilization, proposing a closer connection between global concerns, local issues and individual responsibility. A History of Environmentalism explores this dialectic relationship, with ten contributors from a range of disciplines providing a history of environmentalism which frames global themes and narrates local stories.Each of ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Nature and History in Modern Italy

    Edited by Marco Armiero, Marcus Hall ...
    Series series Series in Ecology and History
    Is Italy il bel paese—the beautiful country—where tourists spend their vacations looking for art, history, and scenery? Or is it a land whose beauty has been cursed by humanity’s greed and nature’s cruelty? The answer is largely a matter of narrative and the narrator’s vision of Italy. The fifteen essays in Nature and History in Modern Italy investigate that nation’s long experience in managing ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Environmental History of Modern Migrations

    Edited by Marco Armiero, Richard Tucker ...
    Series series Routledge Environmental Humanities
    In the age of climate change, the possibility that dramatic environmental transformations might cause the dislocation of millions of people has become not only a matter for scientific speculation or science-fiction narratives, but the object of strategic planning and military analysis.Environmental History of Modern Migrations offers a worldwide perspective on the history of migrations throughout ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • A Field on Fire

    The Future of Environmental History

    by Mark D. Hersey, Ted Steinberg, Marco Armiero, Kevin C. Armitage, Brian C. Black, Lisa M. Brady, Karl Boyd Brooks, Robert Wellman Campbell, Brian Allen Drake0, Sterling Evans1, Sara M. Gregg2, Shen Hou3, Neil M. Maher4, Christof Mauch5, Daniel T. Rodgers6, Adam Rome7, Edmund Russell8, Mikko Saikku9, Frank Zelko0 ...
    A frank and engaging exploration of the burgeoning academic field of environmental historyInspired by the pioneering work of preeminent environmental historian Donald Worster, the contributors to A Field on Fire: The Future of Environmental History reflect on the past and future of this discipline. Featuring wide-ranging essays by leading environmental historians from the United States, Europe, ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Urban Narratives about Nature

    Socio-Ecological Imaginaries between Science and Entertainment

    by Carlos Tabernero, Carlos Acosta, Tim Boon, Santos Casado, Carlos Gámez-Pérez, Lisa Garforth, Jean-Baptiste Gouyon, Oliver Hochadel, Max Long, Ignasi Medà-Calvet0, Marta Piñol-Lloret1, Marco Armiero2 ...
    Series series Environment and Society
    When more than half of the Earth population lives in cities, and living conditions worldwide suffer from a steady increase in environmental issues, historical inquiry provides useful reflections and new perspectives on the present. Urban Narratives about Nature: Socio-Ecological Imaginaries between Science and Entertainment aims at generating specific historical knowledge concerning processes of ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD