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

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. List of Contributors x
5. Note on the Translations xii
6. Acknowledgements xiii
7. Introduction: Spanish Environmental Cultural Studies 1
8. PART I: Environmental Cultural History and Political Ecology
9. 1 Political Ecology in Spain 35
10. 2 Modern Iberian History at the Culture-Environment Interface: Cultures of Nature, Modernization, and the Anthropocene 43
11. PART II: Water and Power
12. 3 Roots Under the Water: Dams, Displacement, and Memory in Franco’s Spain (1950–1967) 55
13. 4 The Message in a Bottle: Waterworks in Modern and Contemporary Spain 61
14. 5 Soil, Water, and Light: Aerial Photography and Agriculture in Spain 68
15. PART III: Ecologies of Memory and Extractivism
16. 6 Developmentalism and the Political Unconsciousness: The Spanish Forms of Necro-Extractivism, from the Civil War to Neoliberal Democracy 79
17. 7 S(h)ifting through the Wreckage 88
18. 8 The Valley of the Fallen: From Francoist Environmentalism to Democratic Eco-Memorials 100
19. PART IV: Animal Studies and Multispecies Ethnographies
20. 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 111
21. 10 What’s in a Name? Animals and Humanities Biogeography 119
22. 11 Ready-to-Hand: The Withdrawal of Animal Life in Francoist Cultural Production 125
23. PART V: Food Studies and Exploitative Ecologies
24. 12 Spain’s Gastronomy: Capitalism and Reproductive Labor 135
25. 13 Intensive Industrial Livestock Production: Envisioning the Burden on Animals and the Environment 146
26. PART VI: Ecofeminism
27. 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 159
28. 15 Spanish Ecofeminism 169
29. PART VII: (Neo)Colonial and Racialized Ecologies
30. 16 Disaster, Coloniality, and the Franco Dictatorship 179
31. 17 From Racial Contaminant to Nutrient in Spain’s Ecological Future 188
32. PART VIII: Tourism and the Environmental Imagination
33. 18 From Pleasant Difference to Ecological Concern: Cultural Imaginaries of Tourism in Contemporary Spain 195
34. 19 The Gaze on the Tourist: Critical Approaches in Spanish Environmental Humanities 206
35. PART IX: Eco-Mediation and Representation
36. 20 Ecopoetics 215
37. 21 Spanish Film and the Environment 223
38. 22 Environmental Politics, Ecological Thought, and Spanish Comics 231
39. PART X: Trash and Discard Studies
40. 23 Enlightened Waste: Burials, Disease, and Public Health in Eighteenth-Century Spain 247
41. 24 Aesthetics and the Political Ecology of Spanish Waste Space 254
42. 25 Discard Studies and Spanish Narrative 263
43. 26 Everything is Rubbish/Nothing is Rubbish: Basurama and the “Trashformation” of Public Space 269
44. Bibliography 281
45. Index 321