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An exploration of how writers, artists, and filmmakers expose the
costs and contest the assumptions of the Capitalocene era that
guides readers through the rapidly developing field of Spanish
environmental cultural studies. From the scars left by Franco's
dams and mines to the toxic waste dumped in Equatorial Guinea, from
the cruelty of the modern pork industry to the ravages of mass
tourism in the Balearic Islands, this book delves into the power
relations, material practices and social imaginaries underpinning
the global economic system to uncover its unaffordable human and
non-human costs. Guiding the reader through the rapidly emerging
field of Spanish environmental cultural studies, with chapters on
such topics as extractivism, animal studies, food studies,
ecofeminism, decoloniality, critical race studies, tourism, and
waste studies, an international team of US and European scholars
show how Spanish writers, artists, and filmmakers have illuminated
and contested the growth-oriented and neo-colonialist assumptions
of the current Capitalocene era. Focussed on Spain, the volume also
provides models for exploring the socioecological implications of
cultural manifestations in other parts of the world. CONTRIBUTORS:
Eugenia Afinoguenova, Samuel Amago, Daniel Ares-Lopez, Kata Beilin,
John Beusterien, Miguel Caballero Vazquez, Jorge Catala, Glen S.
Close, Jeffrey K. Coleman, Jamie de Moya-Cotter, Ana
Fernandez-Cebrian, Ofelia Ferran, Tatjana Gajic , Pedro
Garcia-Caro, Santiago Gorostiza, German Labrador Mendez, Maryanne
L. Leone, Shanna Lino, Jorge Mari, Jose Manuel Marrero Henriquez,
Maria Antonia Marti Escayol, Christine Martinez, Cristina Martinez
Tejero, Micah McKay, Pamela F. Phillips, Merce Picornell, Luis I.
Pradanos, Cecile Stehrenberger, John H. Trevathan, Joaquin
Valdivielso, William Viestenz, Maite Zubiaurre.
Paradoxes of Stasis examines the literary and intellectual
production of the Francoist period by focusing on Spanish writers
following the Spanish Civil War: the regime's supporters and its
opponents, the victors and the vanquished. Concentrating on the
tropes of immobility and movement, Tatjana Gajic analyzes the
internal politics of the Francoist regime and concurrent cultural
manifestations within a broad theoretical and historical framework
in light of the Greek notion of stasis and its contemporary
interpretations. In Paradoxes of Stasis, Gajic argues that the
combination of Francoism's long duration and the uncertainty
surrounding its ending generated an undercurrent of restlessness in
the regime's politics and culture. Engaging with a variety of
genres-legal treatises, poetry, novels, essays, and memoir-Gajic
examines the different responses to the underlying tensions of the
Francoist era in the context of the regime's attempts at reform and
consolidation and in relation to oppositional writers' critiques of
Francoism's endurance. By elucidating different manifestations of
stasis in the politics, literature, and thought of the Francoist
period, Paradoxes of Stasis reveals the contradictions of the era
and offers new critical tools for understanding their relevance.
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