Imagining Apocalyptic Politics in the Anthropocene (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Harper, Earl T.; Specht, Doug

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together scholars from English literature, geography, politics, the arts, environmental humanities and sociology, this book contributes to the emerging debate about how apocalyptic events, narratives and imaginaries interact with societal and individual agency historically and in the current political moment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000453492
• Artikelnr.: 62531404

Autorenporträt

Earl T. Harper is an Independent Scholar. Doug Specht is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Westminster, UK. .

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: ... these unprecedented times Earl T. Harper and Doug Specht
1. They say "our house is on fire" - on the climate emergency and (new)
Earth politics Edward H. Huijbens and Martin Gren 2. Do not go gentle into
that good night: contested narratives and political subjectivities in the
Anthropocene Carlos Tornel and Aapo Lunden 3. The end of worlding:
indigenous cosmologies in the Anthropocene Mariana Reyes-Carranza 4.
Apocalypse repeated: the absence of theindigenous subject in George
Turner's The Sea and Summer (1987) Charlotte Lancaster 5. Apocalyptic
Literary Geographies: The Tempest's 'brave new world,' Frankenstein's
'modern Prometheus,' and Cloud-Atlas' ' furthest-eeein' eye' Charles Travis
6. A world without bodies: geotrauma and the work of mourning in Jorie
Graham's Fast Philip Jones 7. Meaningful life at the end of times: ageism
and the duty-to-die in Logan's Run James A. Tyner 8. The catastrophic drive
Lucas Pohl and Samo Tomi¿ 9. The self(ie) in the Anthropocene Doug Specht
and Cat Snyder 10. Urbicide in the Anthropocene: imagining Miami futures
Stephanie Wakefield 11. Triggering the apparitions: spectres of chemical
seascapes María Soledad Castro Vargas and Diana Barquero Pérez 12. Study
for "Memories of the apocalypse" Carl Christian Olsson 13. Variegated
environmental apocalypses: post-politics, the contestatory, and an
eco-precariat manifesto for a radical apocalyptics Tristan Sturm and
Nicholas Ferris Lustig