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Ethics of life : contemporary Iberian debates / Katarzyna Beilin and William Viestenz, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Hispanic issues (Vanderbilt University) ; v. 42.
- Hispanic issues ; volume 42
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental ethics--Iberian Peninsula.
- Environmental ethics.
- Bioethics--Iberian Peninsula.
- Bioethics.
- Environmental degradation--Moral and ethical aspects--Iberian Peninsula.
- Environmental degradation.
- Climatic changes--Moral and ethical aspects--Iberian Peninsula.
- Climatic changes.
- Biotechnology--Moral and ethical aspects--Iberian Peninsula.
- Biotechnology.
- Human-animal relationships--Moral and ethical aspects--Iberian Peninsula.
- Human-animal relationships.
- Social movements--Iberian Peninsula.
- Social movements.
- Arts and society--Iberian Peninsula.
- Arts and society.
- Environmental conditions.
- Intellectual life.
- Human-animal relationships--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Biotechnology--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Climatic changes--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Environmental degradation--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Iberian Peninsula--Intellectual life.
- Iberian Peninsula.
- Iberian Peninsula--Environmental conditions.
- Ecology.
- Europe--Iberian Peninsula.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiv, 342 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- "Essays in this volume focus on notions of the ethics of life that emerge out of environmental, biopolitical, bioethical, and historical debates currently taking place on the Iberian Peninsula"--Provided by publisher.
- "The contributors ask the following questions: - What are the different rhetorical strategies employed by writers, artists, filmmakers, and activists to react to the degradation of life and climate change? - How are urban movements using environmental issues to resist corporate privatization of the commons? - What is the shape of Spanish debates on reproductive rights and biotechnology? - What is the symbolic significance of the bullfighting debate and other human/animal issues in today's political turmoil in Spain?"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part I. Genealogies of Ecological and Animal Rights Movements in Modern and Contemporary Iberia
- The Environment in Literature and the Arts in Spain / Carmen Flys-Junquera and Tonia Raquejo
- Nunca Máis : Ecological Collectivism and the Prestige Disaster / John Trevathan
- Part II. Ecological Crisis and the Neoliberal Appropriation of Public Space
- Tourism and "Quality of Life" at the End of Franco's Dictatorship / Eugenia Afinoguénova
- Die and Laugh in the Anthropocene : Disquieting Realism and Dark Humor in Biutiful and Nocilla experience / Katarzyna Olga Beilin
- Cultivating the Square : Trash, Recycling, and the Cultural Ecology of Post-Crisis Madrid / Matthew Feinberg and Susan Larson
- Degrowth and Ecological Economics in Twenty-first-Century Spain : Toward a Posthumanist Economy / Luis Prádanos
- Part III. Iberian Bio-Power : Life as a Political Matter
- Reproductive Rights in Spain : From "Abortion Tourism" to "Reproductive Destination" / Pablo de Lora
- Mar adentro and the Question of Freedom / Paul Begin
- Still Different? : Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture in Spain / Sainath Suryanarayanan and Katarzyna Olga Beilin
- Part IV. Reassembling the Archive through the Concept of Life
- Iberian Cultural Studies beyond the Human : Exploring the Life History of Marcos Rodriguez Pantoja in Spanish Anthropology and Popular Film / Daniel Ares López
- The Bull Also Rises : The Political Redemption of the Beast in La pell de brau by Salvador Espriu / William Viestenz
- Animals in Contemporary Spanish Newspapers / John Beusterien
- Accounting for Violence, Counting the Dead : The Civil War and Spain's Political Present / Sebastiaan Faber
- Afterword : Spain : Taking the Alternative? / Martín López-Vega and Luis Martín-Estudillo.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ethics of life
- ISBN:
- 9780826520913
- 082652091X
- 9780826520920
- 0826520928
- OCLC:
- 904861622
- Online:
- Cover image
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