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Ecologies of Coffee Sustainability in the Central Highlands
Ecologies of sustainability and recent narratives about climate change in the Vietnamese coffee industry illuminate how the environment is imagined...
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Lewis’s Babbitt, Literary Maps, and the Production of Space in American Cities
In this chapter, Hairong Zhang tries to take the American writer Sinclair Lewis as the “Babbitt Literary Map” of the “imagination space” for the...
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“God Wotte What Liquor”: Brewing History and Memory in Early Modern England
Whether recorded in memories of public festivals or across England’s changing agricultural landscape, written accounts of brewing participate in...
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The Transmission of Material Experience in Nineteenth-Century Danish Landscape Painting
Thor Mednick’s essay considers how the depiction of agricultural scenes in Danish Romantic painting engaged with emergent, national Romantic...
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Anatomy of the “deathly silence”: Slovenian newspapers in Carniola and the pre-March censorship
The media landscape of the Habsburg Monarchy in the pre-March period was relatively meagre. In Carniola and other Austrian crownlands with a...
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Album or Book?: Form and Content of the Peripheral Metropolis
In Latin America, the crisis of the 1920s and 1930s marks the end of the expectation that urbanization, fueled by agricultural exports in an...
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Representations of Socialist Mobility in Post-WWII China-Italy Cultural Exchange
In the mid 1950s, members of the Chinese and Italian cultural worlds participated in a series of delegations and exchanges. These points of...
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The Literary History of a Welfare State: Kuusi’s Literary History
In Finland, the 1950s and 1960s were a time when a modern welfare state was constructed, with advanced social welfare, education, and infrastructure....
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Introduction
This introduction provides a comprehensive historical, cultural, and political background for the individual chapters in this edited volume. It...
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Destructive Creation in World History, 9000 BCE–1700
Turchin coined the term “destructive creation” to underline the causal importance of warfare in creating increasingly complex societies after the...
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Laurie Lee in Cyprus: Scripting Propaganda, Productivity, and Peasant Labour
This chapter examines agro-food relations in Cyprus in the 1940s. Its starting point is the 1946 colonial propaganda documentary Cyprus is an Island....
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White Flight from Planet Earth: Reading Race, Cheap Food, and Capitalism’s Crisis State in Interstellar
Focusing on the 2014 Hollywood blockbuster Interstellar (directed by Christopher Nolan), this chapter examines the narrative strategies through which...
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Geographies of Peripheral Modernism: The Case of the Russian Avant-Garde (Khlebnikov, Eisenstein, Tretyakov)
The essay explores the extent to which geographical location and imagination might shape notions of peripheral modernism. It takes as its examples...
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Wilhelm Lehmann: Nature Writing as a Behavioural Strategy
This exploration of the German novelist and poet Wilhelm Lehmann (1882–1968) as a nature writer situates his seminal writings within the broader...
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From Crime and Punishment to Future Archaeologies: Reimagining Relationships of Waste and Value
Awareness of the need for action in the face of the climate crisis is undoubtedly growing. The latest IPCC reports have received more publicity than...
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The Hard Work of Being Women in 1960s Italy: Cecilia Mangini and the Documentary Essere donne
A native of southern Italy, Cecilia Mangini (1927–2021) was Italy’s first female documentary filmmaker, yet her work is still not well known. Her...
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Ecocriticism/Ecofeminism
This entry examines historical and recent ecocritical and/or ecofeminist scholarship concerning early modern women’s writing. Beginning with Carolyn...
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Climate change and migration
“Climate change and migration” shows that migration is a complicated phenomenon that is well documented in literature and film, and while it has many...
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Labour Unrest
This chapter concentrates on working conditions and labour unrest. Living and working conditions are often interdependent, so the chapter discusses...
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Tai Narrative, Ritual, and Discourses of the Environment in North Central Vietnam
As a result of the policy of cultural revitalization pursued by the Vietnamese government since 2004, ethnic minorities have restored and promoted...