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The Crisis of Scale in Contemporary Fiction
2020The Crisis of Scale in Contemporary Fiction studies how globalization has transformed our relationship with scale and creates a problem of representation in fiction. After the Second World War, new geopolitical, economic, cultural, and technological developments radically changed the form of existing spaces such as the nation-state, while producing new
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Energy Crisis --- Fact or Fiction
IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 1974SOME political pundits suggest that the energy crisis is a political conspiracy to cover up the other difficulties confronting the administration. Others suggest that it is a business conspiracy to drive up prices. There are still others who believe it to be the natural evolution of our affluent society.
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Beur Fiction and the Banlieue Crisis
2012Geographically speaking, the French banlieues a problemes offer a prime example of the kind of emergent, interstitial spaces discussed in the introductory chapter. Despite the periodic upsurges of interest in the low-income, ethnically mixed banlieues surrounding France’s major metropolises (which tend to follow on the periodic upsurges of violence ...
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Afronauts: On Science Fiction and the Crisis of Possibility
The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 2016This essay investigates the critical function of science fiction (SF) tropes in SF and non-SF works by and about Africans. It begins with the assertion that works that invoke SF tropes, even if they are not properly speaking SF, can productively be read within the frame of SF.
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Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction
2019Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction: Literature Beyond Fordism proposes a fresh approach to contemporary fictional engagements with the idea of crisis in capitalism and its various social and economic manifestations. The book investigates how late-twentieth and twenty-first-century Anglophone fiction has imagined, interpreted ...
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Speculative Fiction, Curriculum Studies, and Crisis
2019Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (JAAACS), Vol 13 No 2 (2019)
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Part Two: Fictionalizing the Financial Crisis
2016This study is concerned with two main questions: how to enable a dialogue between the financial sector and the American civil society and how to represent the unrepresentable, i.e. virtual money. Cosmopolis employs the analogy between money and art to illustrate the changes in the nature of money and the economy as a result of the ‘information age ...
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The global financial crisis and its aftermath: a perspective from fiction
Qualitative Research in Financial Markets, 2021Linda Arch
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