Natural Attachments: The Domestication of American Environmentalism, 1920–1970
Autor Pollyanna Rheeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 mai 2025
A massive oil spill in the Pacific Ocean near Santa Barbara, California, in 1969 quickly became a landmark in the history of American environmentalism, helping to inspire the creation of both the Environmental Protection Agency and Earth Day. But what role did the history of Santa Barbara itself play in this? As Pollyanna Rhee shows, the city’s past and demographics were essential to the portrayal of the oil spill as momentous. Moreover, well-off and influential Santa Barbarans were positioned to “domesticate” the larger environmental movement by embodying the argument that individual homes and families—not society as a whole—needed protection from environmental abuses. This soon would put environmental rhetoric and power to fundamentally conservative—not radical—ends.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780226840635
ISBN-10: 0226840638
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 23 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10: 0226840638
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 23 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Notă biografică
Pollyanna Rhee is assistant professor of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and affiliate faculty in history, sustainable design, and theory and interpretive criticism.
Cuprins
Introduction: What Is It about Santa Barbara?
1 A New Order of American
2 Education, Not Legislation
3 To Cultivate and Protect
4 Boundary Problems
5 The Worst Place
Conclusion: The Ends of Environmentalism
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
1 A New Order of American
2 Education, Not Legislation
3 To Cultivate and Protect
4 Boundary Problems
5 The Worst Place
Conclusion: The Ends of Environmentalism
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Recenzii
“While Natural Attachments is a deeply researched academic book, it’s written clearly enough to be accessible to a general reader. Rhee’s conceptualization of ‘ownership environmentalism’ speaks to the central conundrum we face in our efforts to slow the negative effects of climate change: who’s willing to sacrifice? Who’s willing to moderate their consumption and use of resources? Who deserves or is entitled to a liveable environment?”
“Although Rhee’s book ends in 1970, her research provides insights that are every bit as valuable for diagnosing today’s socioenvironmental condition as they are for understanding its past.”
“Recommended.”
“Natural Attachments rewrites the history of environmentalism as the history of privilege. In this innovative and important book, Rhee brilliantly places architecture and the built environment at the center of a narrative that features an unexpected cast of characters. Rhee convincingly moves across multiple scales of analysis to expose the exclusionary vision of home and civic identity promoted by affluent groups in Santa Barbara and beyond. A local history with national implications, Natural Attachments reveals the powerful links between race, class, and property values in the making of American environmentalism.”
“Natural Attachments is an original exploration of the United States environmental movement through a case study of Santa Barbara, California, site of the iconic 1969 oil spill. Rhee turns our attention to domestic spaces—and the affluent citizens who wanted to improve and protect them—and suggests that postwar environmentalism was not, in fact, driven solely by reform-minded radicals nor primarily engaged with the protection of distant, monumental landscapes. In shining a spotlight on the home, Rhee provides a compelling explanation for why affluent whites became engaged in environmental issues and makes a critical contribution to the scholarship on the American environmental movement.”
“Countless scholars have pointed to the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill as a pivotal moment in the rise of modern environmentalism but few have asked how and why this small city assumed a starring role. Rhee looks past the discolored beaches to consider the ways that gardens, domestic space, homeownership, and community aesthetics shaped an environmental outlook bred in leafy neighborhoods and projected nationwide. The story she tells reframes environmentalism’s origins and commitments; by zooming in on a particular place and its most intimate spaces, she broadens the scope of how we should think about environmental politics. This is a compelling and vital book.”