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From Climate Model to Climate Fiction
This essay asks how climate fiction relates to climate models, focusing on Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future and referencing the theoretical work of Walter Benjamin and Fredric Jameson. It is argued that Robinson’s novel exerts an ‘operative function’ through the formal treatment of three themes: the feedback loop between climate ...openaire +1 more source
Renegotiating Agency with Climate Fiction
interconnections: journal of posthumanismThe traditional definition of agency as a sense of rational control and power to cause changes in the “external” world seems poorly equipped to capture the potential of human agency in the times of climate crisis. Many scholars have placed a lot of faith in the genre of climate fiction -“cli-fi”- as a tool to inspire better ways for humans to interact ...
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Climate Change and Catastrophe Fiction
2012Climate change features in almost all of the fictional sources consulted for this book. Often it forms the context or backdrop for a post-apocalyptic eutopia or (more often) dystopia. Sometimes it is the main focus of the narrative. In this chapter, I have selected five fictional texts.
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Intersectional Futures in Climate Fiction
This book explores the interplay between the transformative vision of feminist environmental humanities and the critical contribution of feminist speculative fiction to the debate about the climate crisis. It intervenes in the debate about the master narrative of the Anthropocene – and about the one-dimensional perspective that often characterises its ...openaire +1 more source
Between Fact and Fiction: Climate Change Fiction
Science Fiction Studies, 2016null Emanuel Herold +2 more
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Why Read African Climate Fiction?
Abstract This chapter turns to African climate fiction to explore alternative ecopolitical imaginaries. It unpacks the case for why we should read climate fiction. What do stories do, politically? In responding to this question, the chapter draws upon political theory debates about science fiction and illustrates the argument with Nnedi ...openaire +1 more source
AFTERWORD Speculative Fiction, Climate Fiction, and Post-Normal Fiction
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