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Allen MacDuffie received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2006. He is the author of Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination (2014), which won the Sonya Rudikoff Prize from the Northeast Victorian Studies Association (NVSA). He has published articles in Representations, ELH, PMLA, Cultural Critique, and other venues, and his recent essay Charles Darwin and the Victorian Pre-History of Climate Denial won the 2019 Donald Gray Prize for best essay written in the field of Victorian studies. He currently serves as the co-editor of Texas Studies in Literature and Language (TSLL).
Source: Fernando López Heptener, La presa de Aldeadávila, 1963, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X_yduTT1EQ. Spain is one of the countries with the largest number of dams, about 1,200. Many were built during Franco’s dictatorship as part of his emblematic hydraulic policy, aimed at addressing post-war social, economic, and energy crises. Aside from the failed autarkic economic project, this…
Photograph: Elena Lavellés. Cranes at the Valdemingómez landfill. Documentation visit 2024. The limits of nature are dissolved under layers of cement, CO2 emitted into the atmosphere and waste produced from the activity of human beings. This overview leads us to a new vision that exceeds our capacity of comprehension and places us on the edge…
On the occasion of the exhibition ‘Archivo ecologista. Memoria y cultura visual del ecologismo en Valencia durante los años setenta’, held at the Centro La Nau of the University of Valencia between March and June of this year, a book-catalogue has been published which presents both the materials of the exhibition and, more broadly, a…