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Author Green, Louise, 1968- author.

Title Fragments from the history of loss : the nature industry and the postcolony / Louise Green
Published University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource
Series AnthropoScene: the SLSA book series
AnthropoScene.
Contents The nature industry -- Nature in fragments -- Living in the subjunctive -- The primitive accumulation of nature -- The cult of the wild -- Privatizing nature -- Living at the end of nature
Summary "Examines the theoretical framing of "nature" in South Africa and beyond. Analyzes myths and fantasies that have brought the world to a point of climate catastrophe and continue to shape the narratives through which it is understood"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Anthropocene
climate change
great acceleration
rewilding
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Subject Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- South Africa
Climatic changes -- Social aspects
Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- South Africa
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Subjects & Themes -- Nature.
Climatic changes -- Social aspects
Nature -- Effect of human beings on
South Africa
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019059729
ISBN 9780271087603
0271087609
9780271087580
0271087587