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Imagining Action in/Against the Anthropocene: Narrative Impasse and the Necessity of Alternatives to Effect Resistance [PDF]
The Anthropocene has emerged as the dominant conception of the contemporary moment, centering the human individual as both responsible for and bearing the responsibility to counteract its numerous interrelated socioeconomic, political, and environmental ...
Kroon, Ariel
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A Licence to Kill: Necroeconomic Suffocation by Stealth and the Fight for Life
Abstract Three decades of austerity in the UK have seen the deterioration of the elemental infrastructures, those that provided a basic level of security for the population. In this article, we analyse the case of Awaab Ishak, who died (age two) when he suffocated from mould in his home in Rochdale, North‐West England.
Imogen Tyler, Beverley Skeggs
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Fundamental Principles of Law for the Anthropocene? [PDF]
A wide array of questions arises from global change to confront environmental law. The IPCC has examined social decisions affecting the climate in the design of human settlements, transport systems, industrialisation, agriculture and silviculture, waste ...
Robinson, Nicholas A.
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Apocalypse yesterday: Posthumanism and comics in the Anthropocene [PDF]
It is widely recognised that the growing awareness that we are living in the Anthropocene – an unstable geological epoch in which humans and their actions are catalysing catastrophic environmental change – is troubling humanity’s understanding and ...
Davies, D., Menga, F.
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Lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries promise improved energy density and cost‐effectiveness over lithium‐ion batteries but face commercialization challenges like the lithium polysulfide (LiPS) shuttle effect. This research introduces chromium‐incorporated nitrogen‐doped graphene (Cr@NG) as a novel separator coating, enhancing conductivity and catalytic ...
Frederik Bettels +11 more
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THE "CLI-FI" AND THE ECOCRITICAL IN MARGARET ATWOOD'S ECOPOETRY [PDF]
Ecocriticism is commonly associated in canonical circles with many names like John Muir, Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Ralph Emerson, and other American pioneer ecophilosophers.
Abolfotoh, Inas Samy
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Fe and Cu exchanged natural clinoptilolites are evaluated as heterogeneous photo‐Fenton catalysts for water disinfection under visible light, using E. coli as a model pathogen. Bacterial detection limit is reached in 2 h, with no regrowth observed.
Paula Prieto‐Laria +9 more
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From revelation to revolution:apocalypticism in green politics [PDF]
Apocalyptic narratives in green politics have provoked much controversy about questions of rhetoric and framing. Critics argue that constant warnings about impending environmental collapse demoralise and demobilise the public, while advocates argue that ...
McNeish, Wallace
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Abstract Climate change is a phenomenon of immense and disorienting complexity which challenges the imagination and complicates its representation in literature. Many critics have pointed out the dominance of universalist and anthropocentric crisis narratives in climate fiction, which focus on imagined future events in North America or Europe and ...
Klara Machata
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Re‐Presentation and Repurposing: Curating Climate Realism in Ben Lerner's 10:04
ABSTRACT Realism, according to recent criticism, is deemed as too rooted in the present, unable to comprehend the potential effects of climatic disaster and imagine new political and organisational responses to vast ecological changes. Instead, the future‐orientated genre of science fiction is much better suited to answering the questions that climate ...
Matthew Lear
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