Gardens and Human Agency in the Anthropocene (Routledge Environmental Humanities)

by Ana Simões (Editor), Maria Paula Diogo (Editor), Ana Duarte Rodrigues (Editor), Davide Sarso (Editor)

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  Illustrated
  2019

  $141.80

  Gardens stage political dominance, religious beliefs, aesthetic choices, economic and social theories, and layers of sociability, and are thus territories for research by philosophers, historians, architects, artists, sociologists, anthropologists, and geographers.

  This book uses the traditional concept of the garden as a tool for discussing the Anthropocene. Bringing together an international group of scholars from different disciplines, including artists, historians, environmental engineers, ecologists, philosophers, and curators, this volume links the garden to the ongoing and interdisciplinary debate on the concept of Anthropocene. The volume is organized in two parts - Part 1 explores gardens and landscapes, real or imaginary, enriched by conceptual tools drawn from the Anthropocene debate, and Part 2 uses the garden to stage the Anthropocene.

  This book will be of great interest to those studying environmental and landscape history, the history of science and technology, historical geography and the environmental humanities.