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 Afinoguénova, Samuel Amago, Daniel Ares-López, Kata Beilin, John Beusterien, Miguel Caballero Vázquez, Jorge Catalá, Glen S. Close, Jeffrey K. Coleman, Jamie de Moya-Cotter, Ana Fernández-Cebrián, Ofelia Ferrán, Tatjana Gajic , Pedro García-Caro, Santiago Gorostiza, Germán Labrador Méndez, Maryanne L. Leone, Shanna Lino, Jorge Marí, José Manuel Marrero Henríquez, Maria Antònia Martí Escayol, Christine Martínez, Cristina Martínez Tejero, Micah McKay, Pamela F. Phillips, Mercè Picornell, Luis I. Prádanos, Cécile Stehrenberger, John H. Trevathan, Joaquín Valdivielso, William Viestenz, Maite Zubiaurre

List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Spanish Environmental Cultural StudiesPART I: ENVIRONMENTAL CULTURAL HISTORY AND POLITICAL ECOLOGY1.Political Ecology in Spain 2. Modern Iberian History at the Culture-Environment Interface: Cultures of Nature, Modernization, and the AnthropocenePART II: WATER AND POWER3. Roots Under the Water: Dams, Displacement, and Memory in Franco's Spain (1950-1967)4. The Message in a Bottle: Waterworks in Modern and Contemporary Spain 5.Soil, Water, and Light: Aerial Photography and Agriculture in Spain PART III: ECOLOGIES OF MEMORY AND EXTRACTIVISM6.Developmentalism and the Political Unconsciousness: The Spanish Forms of Necro-Extractivism, from the Civil War to Neoliberal Democracy7.S(h)ifting through the Wreckage 8.The Valley of the Fallen: From Francoist Environmentalism to DemocraticEco-MemorialsPART IV: ANIMAL STUDIES AND MULTISPECIES ETHNOGRAPHIES9.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 10.What's in a Name? Animals and Humanities Biogeography 11.Ready-to-Hand: The Withdrawal of Animal Life in Francoist Cultural Production PART V: FOOD STUDIES AND EXPLOITATIVE ECOLOGIES12.Spain's Gastronomy: Capitalism and Reproductive Labor13.Intensive Industrial Livestock Production: Envisioning the Burden on Animals and the Environment PART VI: ECOFEMINISM14.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 15. Spanish Ecofeminism PART VII: (NEO)COLONIAL AND RACIALIZED ECOLOGIES 16. Disaster, Coloniality, and the Franco Dictatorship 17. From Racial Contaminant to Nutrient in Spain's Ecological Future PART VIII: TOURISM AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGINATION18. From Pleasant Difference to Ecological Concern: Cultural Imaginaries of Tourism in Contemporary Spain 19.The Gaze on the Tourist: Critical Approaches in Spanish Environmental Humanities PART IX: ECO-MEDIATION AND REPRESENTATION20.Ecopoetics 21.Spanish Film and the Environment 22.Environmental Politics, Ecological Thought, and Spanish Comics PART X: TRASH AND DISCARD STUDIES23.Enlightened Waste: Burials, Disease, and Public Health in Eighteenth-Century Spain 24.Aesthetics and the Political Ecology of Spanish Waste Space 25.Discard Studies and Spanish Narrative 26.Everything is Rubbish/Nothing is Rubbish: Basurama and the "Trashformation" of Public Space BibliographyIndex