By Jim Igoe
ISBN-10: 0816530440
ISBN-13: 9780816530441
In The Nature of Spectacle, Jim Igoe embarks on multifaceted explorations of the way we think nature and the way nature shapes our imaginations. The e-book lines stunning productions of imagined nature throughout time and space—from African nature tourism to transnational coverage occasions to eco-friendly patron appeals within which the frenzy of a digital button looks to start up a sequence of occasions leading to the safety of polar bears within the Arctic or jaguars within the Amazon rainforest. those explorations remove darkness from the usually spectacular intersections of consumerism, leisure, and environmental coverage. They convey how those intersections determine in a strengthening and frustrating coverage consensus within which financial progress and atmosphere health and wellbeing are solid as jointly necessitating stipulations. in addition they take heavily the possibility of those intersections and the way they could facilitate different alignments and imaginings that could turn into the root of choices to our present socioecological predicaments.
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