caa a22 4500 445846437 CHVBK 20180317145400.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10624-011-9262-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10624-011-9262-6 Karakasidou Anastasia Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA aut National purities and ecological disasters: Greek modernity and the war on nature [Elektronische Daten] [Anastasia Karakasidou] The ecological peculiarities we have experience lately are unintended consequences of the intellectual, scientific, and political patterns of modernity. This paper aspires to discuss nationalism as a cultural mechanism at the service of man's scientific quest and domination over nature. As a major force and a by-product of the political project of modernity, nationalism appropriated designated landscapes and allowed their transformation into polluted environments. Through a strong alliance between state and industry, the pure and the pristine have mutated into the polluted and the contaminated. This paper will focus on the narratives of modernity, chemical agriculture, and environmental pollution in Greek Macedonia. It will discuss how our past emphasis on national politics and identity overshadowed early local concerns for environmental pollution, illness, and death. The mantle of nationalism can be held accountable for the miasmatic geographies that modernity created, threatening the nation with pollution, and vulnerable citizens with dreadful diseases and ailments, such as cancer. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Greek Macedonia nationallicence Cancer nationallicence Pollution nationallicence Environment nationallicence Modernity nationallicence Dialectical Anthropology Springer Netherlands 35/4(2011-12-01), 387-401 0304-4092 35:4<387 2011 35 10624 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-011-9262-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-011-9262-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Karakasidou Anastasia Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Dialectical Anthropology Springer Netherlands 35/4(2011-12-01), 387-401 0304-4092 35:4<387 2011 35 10624 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer