Carlos Tabernero is associate professor in the Institute of History and Science at The Autonomous University of Barcelona.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: Narrating Nature from the City Part I: Between Academia and Activism Chapter 1: Miquel Crusafont and Sabadell: Narratives about Paleontology (Spain, 1950-1973) Chapter 2: Environmentalism in Transition Part II: Between Knowledge and Entertainment Chapter 3: Wild at Heart: Zoological Gardens and the Urban Space Chapter 4: Mass Media and Urban Animals in History: The View from Interwar Britain Chapter 5: Teaching and Tinkering with Personal Computers in Catalan Rural Schools and Summer Camps (Spain, 1980s-1990s) Part III: Between Film and Literature Chapter 6: The Countryside in the Frame: Film Representations of Nature under Franco's Dictatorship Chapter 7: Hunting Narratives in Twentieth-Century Spain: The Case of Miquel Delibes Chapter 8: From El Modena to Terminator: Imagining Green Utopian Places for the Anthropocene Part IV: Between Natural History and Television Chapter 9: Percy Smith: The Triple Liminality of an Urban Natural History Filmmaker in Interwar Britain Chapter 10: The Granada TV and Film Unit at the London Zoo: "Creating Adequate Opportunity for Observing Patterns for Amateur and Professional Zoologists Alike" Chapter 11: Televising Nature as Modernization: El Hombre y la Tierra (Man and the Earth, 1974-1981) in 1970s Spain Afterword: City of Silence, City of Stories: Or of Ghosts, Doors, and Subversion About the Contributors
"Nature has been narrated as dangerous, backward, salvific, and endangered. This book looks to cities for the mechanisms of production, development, and circulation nodes of some of these narratives. Through carefully chosen and researched cases studies, mostly located in 20th-century Spain and Great Britain, the essays in this edited volume compellingly show the transnational networks of media, experts, businesses, and activists that re-imagined non-urban landscapes from cities. From these studies, cities themselves emerge as contested spaces with porous walls traversed, often in unexpected ways, by the very natural entities that urban dwellers sought to tame through their storytelling." -- Lino Camprubi, University of Seville