Information Bytes: From Bullfighting to COVID-Fighting : How to Live on Planet Earth

• Autores: Katarzyna Olga Beilin
• Localización: The Routledge Hispanic studies companion to twentieth and twenty-first century Spain: ideas, practices, imaginings / coord. por Eduardo Ledesma, Luisa Elena Delgado, 2025, ISBN 978-1-032-96468-3, págs. 77-89
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This chapter reflects on the culture of the environment and human animal relations in Spanish cultural history in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The author follows the parallelisms between the debates on bullfighting, colonial attitudes towards nature, and the “war against the virus” to trace a slow change in the current cultural paradigm. While modern cultural rethoric pitts humans against the environment, celebrating an individualistic, masculinist capacity to conquer and subdue nature for pleasure and consumption, a new way of thinking that is emerging from the current environmental crisis views humans as a vulnerable part of planetary ecosystems yet capable of transforming them nonetheless.