Wetlands and Western Cultures
Denigration to Conservation
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Lexington Books
Published:15th May '21
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
In Wetlands and Western Cultures: Denigration to Conservation, Rod Giblett examines the portrayal of wetlands in Western culture and argues for their conservation. Giblett’s analysis of the wetland motif in literature and the arts, including in Beowulf and the writings of Tolkien and Thoreau, demonstrates two approaches to wetlands—their denigration as dead or their commendation as living waters with a potent cultural history.
Wetlands and Western Cultures is a visceral and imaginative foray into the connectivities between landscape and human civilization across time. Rod Giblett gracefully traces our collective changing attitudes toward, and appropriation of, wetland ecosystems from ‘drain and reclaim’ narratives to a growing awareness of the necessity of embedding wetlands within sustainable and regenerative futures. This beautifully sculpted work serves as a reminder of the intractable relationship which exists between nature and culture with humans acting as both conduit and fabricator.
-- Mary Gearey, University of BrigISBN: 9781793643452
Dimensions: 228mm x 164mm x 22mm
Weight: 558g
238 pages