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Mediating Nature
Mediating Nature provides a history of the present nature of mass mediation. It examines the ways in which a number of discourses, technologies and institutions have historically shaped the current ways of imagining nature in the mass media. Where much of the existing research treats mass mediation as a matter of media technologies, texts, or institutions, this text adopts a somewhat different approach: it considers mass mediation as a historical process by means of which the members of audiences and indeed the public more generally came to be incorporated as observers in, and of mass culture. This approach allows the book to investigate the roles that a wide range of genres relating to natu...
Observing Wildlife in Tropical Forests
Observing Wildlife in Tropical Forests combines geographic, semiotic, sociological and ecological theories to develop a geosemeiotic approach to tourist observational practices in tropical forests (the extra 'e' in semeiotic is meant to underscore the work's debt to the research of Charles S. Peirce).The first of two volumes, this book is written in a clear style which does not presuppose prior knowledge of the fields employed in the study. It is a key reference for scholars and students interested in tourism and the perception of wildlife; wildlife observation as it relates to the media; and the practical and philosophical issues that emerge when scientists, media producers or guides teach about tropical ecosystems, their fauna and flora. / / Nils Lindahl Elliot is the author of Mediating Nature (Routledge, 2006), and an independent researcher and writer based in Bristol, England. He specialises in transdisciplinary research about mediated understandings of science and nature.
Observing Wildlife in Tropical Forests
"...combines geographic, semiotic, sociological and ecological theories to develop a geosemeiotic approach to tourist observational practices in tropical forests."--Publisher's summary.
Reviews in Brief: Virtual Migration: the Programming of Globalization
Abstract: Reviews in brief: (1) Virtual migration: the programming of globalization. By A. Aneesh. London: Duke Univ. Press 2006, 194 pp. ISBN 0-8223-3681-2. (2) Mediating nature: environmentalism and modern culture. By Nils Lindahl Elliot. London: Routledge 2006, 284 pp. ISBN 0-415-39325-6
Mediating Nature
Mediating Nature provides a history of the present nature of mass mediation. It examines the ways in which a number of discourses, technologies and institutions have historically shaped the current ways of imagining nature in the mass media. Where much of the existing research treats mass mediation as a matter of media technologies, texts, or institutions, this text adopts a somewhat different approach: it considers mass mediation as a historical process by means of which the members of audiences and indeed the public more generally came to be incorporated as observers in, and of mass culture. This approach allows the book to investigate the roles that a wide range of genres relating to natu...
Devoted to Nature
"Devoted to Nature explores the religious underpinnings of American environmentalism, tracing the theological character of American environment thought from their Romantic foundations to contemporary discourse about nature spirituality. This history is most readily visible during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, when religious sources tangibly shaped ideas about the natural world, recreational practices, and modes of social and political interaction. The roots of the environmental movement evidence explicitly Christian understandings of salvation, redemption, and progress, which provided the context for Americans enthusiastic about the out-of-doors and established the horizons of possibility for the national environmental imagination"--Provided by publisher.
Social Transnationalism
In recent decades, the rise of world markets and the technological revolutions in transportation and communication have brought what was once distant and inaccessible within easy reach of the individual. The territorial and social closure that characterized nation-states is fading, and this is reflected not only in new forms of governance and economic globalization, but also in individual mobility and transnational transactions, affiliations and networks. Social Transnationalism explores new forms of cross-border interactions and mobility which have expanded across physical space by looking at the individual level. It asks whether we are dealing with unbridled movements and cross-border interactions which transform the lifeworlds of individuals fundamentally. Furthermore, it investigates whether, and to what degree, increases in the volume of transnational interactions weaken the individual citizen's bond to the nation-state as such, and to what extent citizens' national identities are being replaced or complemented by cosmopolitan ones
Urban Fears and Global Terrors
This book looks at 7/7 – the events the loss, fear and mourning that followed. It seeks to shape narratives of social theory that can help us understand the world after 9/11, offering new forms of social theory and new narrative methodologies.
Ecologies of the Moving Image
This book presents an ecophilosophy of cinema: an account of the moving image in relation to the lived ecologies – material, social, and perceptual relations – within which movies are produced, consumed, and incorporated into cultural life. If cinema takes us on mental and emotional journeys, the author argues that those journeys that have reshaped our understanding of ourselves, life, and the Earth and universe. A range of styles are examined, from ethnographic and wildlife documentaries, westerns and road movies, sci-fi blockbusters and eco-disaster films to the experimental and art films of Tarkovsky, Herzog, Malick, and Brakhage, to YouTube’s expanding audio-visual universe.
Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture
Today, questions about how and why societies punish are deeply emotive and hotly contested. In Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture, Claire Grant argues that criminal justice is a key site for the negotiation of new collective identities and modes of belonging. Exploring both popular cultural forms and changes in crime policies and criminal law, Grant elaborates on new forms of critical engagement with the politics of crime and punishment. In doing so, the book discusses: teletechnologies, punishment and new collectivities the cultural politics of victims rights discourses on foreigners, crime and diaspora terror, the death penalty and the spectacle of violence. Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture makes a timely and important contribution to debate on the possibilities of justice in the media age. This book is essential reading for undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers interested in the area of crime and punishment.
