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    Swinging City : A Cultural Geography of London 1950-1974 (2011)
    Farnham : Routledge
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    ISBN: 9780754689157
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (200 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Re-materialising Cultural Geography
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rycroft, Simon, 1966 - Swinging city
    DDC: 942.1085
    RVK:
    LB 72190
    RVK:
    MS 1870
    Keywords: Cultural geography -- England -- London ; Counterculture -- England -- London ; London (England) -- Civilization -- 20th century ; Electronic books ; local ; Counterculture ; England ; London ; Cultural geography ; England ; London ; London (England) ; Civilization ; 20th century ; Electronic books ; England ; London ; Kulturgeographie ; Kultursoziologie ; Geschichte 1950-1974 ; Cultural geography ; England ; London ; Counterculture ; England ; London ; London (England) ; Civilization ; 20th century ; London ; Anthropogeografie ; Gegenkultur ; Jugendkultur ; Subkultur ; Geschichte 1950-1974
    Abstract: This book works with two contrasting imaginings of 1960s London: the one of the excess and comic vacuousness of Swinging London, the other of the radical and experimental cultural politics generated by the city's counterculture. The connections between these two scenes are mapped looking firstly at the spectacular events that shaped post-war London, then at the modernist physical and social reconstruction of the city alongside artistic experiments such as Pop and Op Art. Making extensive use of London's underground press the book then explores the replacement of this seemingly materialistic image with the counterculture of underground London from the mid-1960s. Swinging City develops the argument that these disparate threads cohere around a shared cosmology associated with a new understanding of nature which differently positioned humanity and technology. The book tracks a moment in the historical geography of London during which the city asserts itself as a post-imperial global city. Swinging London it argues, emerged as the product of this recapitalisation, by absorbing avant-garde developments from the provinces and a range of transnational, mainly transatlantic, influences.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: The Material and Immaterial Geographies of 1960s London -- 2 The Long Front of Material and Immaterial Culture I: Beat and Angry -- 3 The Long Front of Material and Immaterial Culture II: Architecture and Visual Culture -- 4 Mapping Swinging London -- 5 A Historical Geography of Countercultural London -- 6 Rephrasing and Reimagining Dissent: Technology, Nature and Humanity -- 7 Oz, London and Cosmic Consciousness -- 8 Lightshows and Multi-media Environments: Cosmic Connections and the Countercultural Subject -- 9 Conclusions: Post-War Vision and Representation -- References -- Index.
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    Where the Wild Things Are Now : Domestication Reconsidered (2007)
    London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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    ISBN: 9781847883322
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (326 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Wenner-Gren International Symposium Ser
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Wenner-Gren International Symposium (133. : 2004 : Tucson, Ariz.) Where the wild things are now
    DDC: 304.5
    RVK:
    LC 55000
    Keywords: Domestication -- Congresses ; Domestic animals -- Congresses ; Plants, Cultivated -- Congresses ; Human-animal relationships -- Congresses ; Human-plant relationships -- Congresses ; Electronic books ; local ; Domestic animals ; Congresses ; Domestication ; Congresses ; Human-animal relationships ; Congresses ; Human-plant relationships ; Congresses ; Plants, Cultivated ; Congresses ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Domestication has often seemed a matter of the distant past, a series of distinct events involving humans and other species that took place long ago. Today, as genetic manipulation continues to break new barriers in scientific and medical research, we appear to be entering an age of biological control. Are we also writing a new chapter in the history of domestication? Where the Wild Things Are Now explores the relevance of domestication for anthropologists and scholars in related fields who are concerned with understanding ongoing change in processes affecting humans as well as other species. From the pet food industry and its critics to salmon farming in Tasmania, the protection of endangered species in Vietnam and the pigeon fanciers who influenced Darwin, Where the Wild Things Are Now provides an urgently needed re-examination of the concept of domestication against the shifting background of relationships between humans, animals and plants.
    Abstract: Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- Participants at the Wenner-GrenFoundation International Symposium"Where the Wild Things Are Now" -- Introduction: Domestication Reconsidered -- 1 The Domestication of Anthropology -- 2 Animal Interface: The Generosity of Domestication -- 3 Selection and the Unforeseen Consequences of Domestication -- 4 Agriculture or Architecture? The Beginnings of Domestication -- 5 Monkey and Human Interconnections: The Wild, the Captive, and the In-between -- 6 "An Experiment on a Gigantic Scale": Darwin and the Domestication of Pigeons -- 7 The Metaphor of Domestication in Genetics -- 8 Domestication "Downunder": Atlantic Salmon Farming in Tasmania -- 9 Putting the Lion out at Night: Domestication and the Taming of the Wild -- 10 Of Rice, Mammals, and Men: The Politics of "Wild" and "Domesticated" Species in Vietnam -- 11 Feeding the Animals -- Index.
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