1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910828038103321

Titolo

Narratives of environmental challenges in Brazil and India : losing nature / / edited by Zélia M. Bora and Murali Sivaramakrishnan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-4985-8115-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 pages)

Collana

Ecocritical theory and practice

Disciplina

363.700981

Soggetti

Environmental protection - Brazil

Brazil

India

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- I: Contested Spaces: Resisting the Loss of Water and Forests -- 1 The Loss of Nature, Human and Nonhuman Relationships in Tamil Nadu -- 2 Human Intervention and the Depleting Well Springs of Nature -- 3 Green Risk -- 4 Sabarimala -- II: Speaking Nature: The Cultural Dimensions of Water and Land -- 5 The Amazonas Rainforest Revisited -- 6 The Saga of Subalterns amidst Resource Crisis -- 7 Re-reading Nature, Restoring Nature -- 8 Nature, Religion, and Ecological Sustainability in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide -- III: The Voice of the Subaltern: Losing Nature -- 9 "Good God! The Tambochas!" -- 10 Around and Inside the Amazonas Rainforest -- 11 Myths of the Amazon River and the Theater A RA QI RI -- 12 The Role of Women in the Early Environmental Movement in India -- Index -- About the Contributors.

Sommario/riassunto

Narratives of Environmental Challenges in Brazil and India: Losing Nature is comprised of research on the representation and interrogation of environmental issues in both subcontinents, Brazil and India.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910959574003321

Autore

Rowsell Jennifer <1969->

Titolo

Working with Multimodality : Rethinking Literacy in a Digital Age

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2013

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-135-09766-6

0-203-07195-6

1-135-09767-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Disciplina

302.2244

401.4

401/.4

Soggetti

Modality (Linguistics)

Technological literacy

Mass media in education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Working with Multimodality Rethinking Literacy in a Digital Age; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Film; Tobias Wiegand; Robin Benger; Rebecca Birch; 2 Sound; David Murphy; Paul Chivers; 3 Visual; Ben Hodson; Bani Mendy; Lee Edward Födi; 4 Interface; Lisa Murphy; Adrian Thiessen and Kristen Nater; Joe Deklic; 5 Videogames; David Elton; Kevin Kee; 6 Space; Anthony Robins; David Parker; Ana Lakoseljak; 7 Movement; Karen Kain; Glenys McQueen-Fuentes; Derek Metz; 8 Word; Gary Bonilla; Grant LaFleche; Kari-Lynn Winters; Gail Bowen; 9 Textile

Trish EwanikaMichelle Vanderheyden; Conclusion; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In today's digital world, we have multiple modes of meaning-making: sounds, images, hypertexts. Yet, within literacy education, even 'new' literacies, we know relatively little about how to work with and produce modally complex texts.    In Working with Multimodality, Jennifer Rowsell focuses on eight modes: words, images, sounds, movement, animation, hypertext, design and modal learning. Throughout the book



each mode is illustrated by cases studies based on the author's interviews with thirty people, who have extensive experience working with a mode in their field. From a