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Climate Fiction and its Narratives
Exchanges, 2021 In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the narratives about a possible environmental collapse and its consequences have multiplied. This is due to a growing awareness about issues such as climate change or the energy crisis.
Ana-Clara Rey Segovia
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Ecoterrorism in Recent Climate Fiction
Jednak Książki, 2022 Ecoterrorism is widely discussed – and sometimes practised – by environmental activists, but rarely represented in climate fiction. This essay explores three recent ‘cli-fi,’ novels which do in fact address the issue, one from Finland, one from the US ...
Andrew Milner
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Culture and climate change scenarios: the role and potential of the arts and humanities in responding to the ‘1.5 degrees target’ [PDF]
, 2018 This paper critically assesses the role and potential of the arts and humanities in relation to the ‘1.5 degree target’ embedded within the Paris Agreement. Specifically, it considers the purpose of scenarios in inviting thinking about transformed futures.
Smith, Joe, Tyszczuk, Renata
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Audience Reactions to Climate Change and Science in Disaster Cli-fi Films: A Qualitative Analysis
Journal of Public Interest Communications, 2017 Little scholarly attention has been paid to how audiences interpret pop culture messages about climate. This paper addresses this issue by taking up the case of disaster cli-fi films and exploring how audiences react to film representations of climate ...
Lauren N Griffin
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La ville dans les proto‑fictions climatiques françaises du xixe siècle
ReS Futurae, 2023 This article studies climate change and its consequences on cities –the city whose archetype, to a large extent, is Paris – as envisaged by French-speaking authors of 19th century anticipations.
Philippe Éthuin
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Lateral, 2020 Marc DiPaolo’s Fire and Snow engages with the burgeoning 'cli-fi' genre which speculates on climate change themes and corollary effects. Through close examination of such diverse works as Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games, Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam ...
Alisa M Schreibman
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Book review: Contemporary perspectives on ecofeminism [PDF]
, 2017 Both within the introductory essay and elsewhere in this new collection Karen Warren’s (2000) metaphor of a patchwork quilt, ‘made up of different “patches”, constructed by different quilters in particular social, historical and materialist contexts’, is
Bradshaw, Penelope
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J.G. Ballard's 'The Drowned World' (1962): Psycho-Geographical Cli-Fi [PDF]
, 2018 Ballard's 'The Drowned World' is often considered to be a form of proto-Climate Fiction. This introduction to the work, taken from Axel Goodbody's and Adeline Johns-Putra's excellent Cli-Fi reader from Peter Lang, explores how Ballard's work both ...
Clarke, Jim
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Exchanges, 2021 This article discusses two instances of ‘Anthropocene fiction’ (Trexler, 2015: 4) that engage with the environmental crisis that industrial modernity has generated: Richard Jefferies’ After London (1885), and Robert Harris’ The Second Sleep (2019), which
Adrian Tait
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, 2023 The article relates to “empirical ecocriticism” and has attracted the attention of many academics, political circles, and social groups for the global living environment. Schneider and Mayerson explore the topic of “climate fiction,” a literary genre focusing on climate related themes that has grown in popularity over the last decade.
Minh-Hoang Nguyen, Quan-Hoang Vuong
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