Contents

pp vi-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-x

List of Contributors

pp xi-xii

Note on the Translations

pp xiii-xiii

Acknowledgements

pp xiv-xv

Introduction: Spanish Environmental Cultural Studies

pp 1-32

Part I - Environmental Cultural History and Political Ecology

pp 33-34

1 - Political Ecology in Spain

pp 35-42

2 - Modern Iberian History at the Culture-Environment Interface: Cultures of Nature, Modernization, and the Anthropocene

pp 43-52

Part II - Water and Power

pp 53-54

3 - Roots Under the Water: Dams, Displacement, and Memory in Franco’s Spain (1950–1967)

pp 55-60

4 - The Message in a Bottle: Waterworks in Modern and Contemporary Spain

pp 61-67

5 - Soil, Water, and Light: Aerial Photography and Agriculture in Spain

pp 68-76

Part III - Ecologies of Memory and Extractivism

pp 77-78

6 - Developmentalism and the Political Unconsciousness: The Spanish Forms of Necro-Extractivism, from the Civil War to Neoliberal Democracy

pp 79-87

7 - S(h)ifting through the Wreckage

pp 88-99

8 - The Valley of the Fallen: From Francoist Environmentalism to Democratic Eco-Memorials

pp 100-108

Part IV - Animal Studies and Multispecies Ethnographies

pp 109-110

9 - Multispecies Ethnographies in the World of Things (Crematorio and En la orilla by Rafael Chirbes and Óliver Laxe’s O que arde): On the Need to Ecologize Humanities

pp 111-118

10 - What’s in a Name? Animals and Humanities Biogeography

pp 119-124

11 - Ready-to-Hand: The Withdrawal of Animal Life in Francoist Cultural Production

pp 125-132

Part V - Food Studies and Exploitative Ecologies

pp 133-134

12 - Spain’s Gastronomy: Capitalism and Reproductive Labor

pp 135-145

13 - Intensive Industrial Livestock Production: Envisioning the Burden on Animals and the Environment

pp 146-156

Part VI - Ecofeminism

pp 157-158

14 - Early Ecofeminism in Spain: El metal de los Muertos (1920) and Mineros (1932), (anti)Mining Literary Interventions by Concha Espina, Carmen Conde, and María Cegarra

pp 159-168

15 - Spanish Ecofeminism

pp 169-176

Part VII - (Neo)Colonial and Racialized Ecologies

pp 177-178

16 - Disaster, Coloniality, and the Franco Dictatorship

pp 179-187