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Cli-fi videos can increase charitable donations: experimental evidence from the United Kingdom [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Recent research has begun to investigate if climate fiction, or cli-fi, can increase people’s support for pro-climate initiatives. Emerging evidence focuses on whether cli-fi stories affect people’s self-reported emotions, attitudes, and intentions.
Ganga Shreedhar +4 more
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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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Middle Eastern Literatures, 2023 This article analyses the representation of the climate crisis and urban imaginaries in post-2011 Arabic science fiction (SF), arguing that Arabic SF, and its cross-genre of critical dystopian fiction, intersects with global climate fiction (cli-fi), while maintaining a horizon for hope.
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Climate Fiction of the Anthropocene
Australian Journal of Environmental EducationHumanity is collectively experiencing the Anthropocene. Human-induced climate change is catastrophically altering the relationships between Earth systems and human systems. The homeostasis of the whole-Earth ecosystem is dangerously off-kilter, with marginalised humans, other than humans, and more-than-humans most at risk as hydroclimatic volatility ...
Joseph Paul Ferguson +3 more
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Transnational readings in the Trumpocene: Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 and Chris Beckett’s America City [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] [PDF]
Open Research EuropeThis article discusses two climate fiction novels—one British, one American—that were written in the runup to two major political events on either side of the Atlantic in 2016—the Brexit referendum and the first election of Donald Trump to the US ...
Dolores Resano
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Fictioning the Futures of Climate Change
Fafnir, 2022 Fictionality, at a basic level, is a heuristic invitation. It achieves its effects using a combination of worldbuilding and speculative potential, the former the design and the latter the openings afforded by the conditions of the design. Within climate
Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay
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Ecology and Society, 2021 Understanding possible climate futures that include carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and solar radiation modification (SRM) requires thinking not just about staying within the remaining carbon budget, but also about politics and people.
Laura M. Pereira +16 more
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Utbildning & Lärande, 2021 This study shows how climate fiction can offer pedagogical opportunities for encouraging student agency as well as open up constructive discussions about the future in relation to social change and climate justice.
Ulrika Andersson Hval +1 more
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ReS Futurae, 2023 This paper demonstrates how the first major locus of climate-change fiction in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries already integrates climate into an economic rhetoric that views climate policy as a zero-sum competition between rival ...
Steve Asselin
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Fikcje antropocenu. Literatura XXI wieku wobec katastrofy klimatycznej
Jednak Książki, 2022 This article explores narrative trajectories of conceptualizing climate change in modern literature. The main goal is to extend frames of Anthropocene fiction beyond science fiction genre in novels written in the twenty-first century.
Monika Żółkoś
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