Description: An exploration of how writers, artists, and filmmakers expose the costs and contest the assumptions of the Capitalocene era that guides readers through the rapidly developing field of Spanish environmental cultural studies.
Brief description: LUIS I. PRÁDANOS is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Miami University, Ohio.
Review Quotes: Spanish cultural studies have largely ignored ecological concerns, and this book reveals the enormity of the gap that oversight creates in the field's understanding of cultural history. It also shows how an ecological perspective can amplify our critiques, with frameworks like social metabolism, extractivism, ecofeminism, racialized ecologies, non-human agency and discard studies. It is to be appreciated that some chapters recognize the work of noted Spain-based environmental activitists and thinkers [...].--Jesse Barker "INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF IBERIAN STUDIES"