Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Genealogies of Ecological and Animal Rights Movements in Modern and Contemporary Iberia -- The Environment in Literature and the Arts in Spain / Carmen Flys-Junquera and Tonia Raquejo Grado -- Nunca Mais : Ecological Collectivism and the Prestige Disaster / John Trevathan -- Part II. Ecological Crisis and the Neoliberal Appropriation of Public Space -- Tourism and "Quality of Life" at the End of Franco's Dictatorship / Eugenia Afinoguenova -- Die and Laugh in the Anthropocene : Disquieting Realism and Dark Humor in Biutiful and Nocilla experience / Katarzyna Beilin -- Cultivating the Square : Trash, Recycling, and the Cultural Ecology of Post-Crisis Madrid / Matthew Feinberg and Susan Larson -- Degrowth and Ecological Economics in Twenty-first-Century Spain : Toward a Posthumanist Economy / Luis Pradanos -- Part III. Iberian Bio-Power : Life as a Political Matter -- Reproductive Rights in Spain : From "Abortion Tourism" to "Reproductive Destination" / Pablo de Lora -- Mar adentro and the Question of Freedom / Paul Begin -- Still Different? : Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture in Spain / Sainath Suryanarayanan and Katarzyna Beilin -- Part IV. Reassembling the Archive through the Concept of Life -- Iberian Cultural Studies beyond the Human : Exploring the Life History of Marcos Rodriguez Pantoja in Spanish Anthropology and Popular Film / Daniel Ares -- The Bull Also Rises : The Political Redemption of the Beast in La pell de brau by Salvador Espriu / William Viestenz -- Animals in Contemporary Spanish Newspapers / John Beusterien -- Accounting for Violence, Counting the Dead : The Civil War and Spain's Political Present / Sebastiaan Faber -- Afterword: Spain : Taking the Alternative? / Martin Lopez-Vega and Luis Martin-Estudillo.

"The contributors ask the following questions: - What are the different rhetorical strategies employed by writers, artists, filmmakers, and activists to react to the degradation of life and climate change? - How are urban movements using environmental issues to resist corporate privatization of the commons? - What is the shape of Spanish debates on reproductive rights and biotechnology? - What is the symbolic significance of the bullfighting debate and other human/animal issues in today's political turmoil in Spain?"-- Provided by publisher.

"Essays in this volume focus on notions of the ethics of life that emerge out of environmental, biopolitical, bioethical, and historical debates currently taking place on the Iberian Peninsula"--Provided by publisher.

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