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The article reveals the importance of understanding the categories of "utopia / dystopia" by schoolchildren.
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Fossil Hegemony and Capitalist Realism in Tropic of Orange
ABSTRACT This article examines Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange (1997) through the lens of Mark Fisher's influential concept ‘capitalist realism’. Scholars of petrofiction have pointed to a political ambivalence in the representation of fossil fuels, where a better understanding of fossil capital can overwhelm as much as galvanize.
Claire Ravenscroft
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Gendered Dystopia: Gender Politics in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We
This paper undertakes to examine the gender politics of Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We (1924), the probable prototype of the modern dystopia, by analyzing how the author adheres to or subverts the characteristics of dystopia specifically in terms of gender ...
Demir Alihodžić
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ABSTRACT This paper presents a close‐hearing analysis of Forest 404, a transmedial audio drama that was released to BBC Sounds in 2019. Despite the drama's eco‐dystopian critique of teleological ‘progress’ narratives (that enable and perpetuate the destruction of the natural world), I argue that the series ultimately propagates a sense of inevitability
Matilda Jones
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Антиутопия в романах В. Набокова Приглашение на казнь и Т. Толстой Кысь
Dystopia in the Novels by V. Nabokov Invitation to a Beheading and T. Tolstaya Кys Nabokov’s Invitation to a Beheading (1934) and Tolstaya’s Кys (1984-2000) build the model of the modern society.
Natalia Popovich
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Imagining Climate and Environmental Transformation in the European Union
ABSTRACT The EU is clearly committed to its response to the climate and environmental crisis. Transformative policy solutions and targets have been set within the Union to restore 90% of degraded ecosystems and reach climate neutrality by 2050. The EU also remains one of the biggest donors of climate and environmental development aid.
Simon Hollis
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How to Be Hopeful About Climate Change
ABSTRACT Why do people in climate‐vulnerable regions of Kenya and Namibia express more hope for the future than many in Germany, despite facing greater environmental threats? Drawing on ethnographic research and the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel, we make two arguments.
Julian Sommerschuh, Michael Schnegg
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One Crisis to Solve Another? The Place of Care in a World of Automated Work
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Anca Gheaus
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ABSTRACT This study investigates how consumers respond to service failures caused by mandatory government sustainability policies, which differ from conventional failures in their persistence, uncontrollability, and foreseeability. Across two experimental studies, we examine how consumers respond to sustainability policy‐induced service failures ...
DaEun Park, YongHee Kim
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Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope
The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
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