ISBN:
9780739195765
,
073919576X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (269 pages)
Series Statement:
Ecocritical theory and practice
Parallel Title:
Print version Urban ecologies
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Urban ecology (Sociology)
;
Ecocriticism
;
Human ecology
;
Social ecology
;
Social ecology
;
Urban ecology (Sociology)
;
Human ecology
;
Ecocriticism
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Human Geography
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; Urban
;
Ecocriticism
;
Human ecology
;
Social ecology
;
Urban ecology (Sociology)
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Hochschulschrift
Abstract:
This book provides a reflection on urban ecocriticism, a subject that has yet to be fully researched and appreciated within the trans-disciplinary framework of the environmental humanities
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: A cultural urban ecology(Eco- )cosmopolitanism: the local, the global and the ecology of world cities -- Force of nature: the ecology of the inner-city drug culture in The Wire -- The city that care forgot: the complex ecology of (post- )Katrina New Orleans.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed Jan. 13, 2015)
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