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Ecocritical Explorations of the Climate Crisis: Planetary Precarity and Future Habitability

Ecocritical Explorations of the Climate Crisis: Planetary Precarity and Future Habitability

Wilson, Janet M.
Schmidt-Haberkamp, Barbara
Dwivedi, Om Prakash

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment

Biographies GeneralLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1032468793
ISBN13: 9781032468792
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 21 2024
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Ecocritical Explorations of the Climate Crisis expands postcolonial precarity studies by addressing the current climate crisis and threats to the habitability of the planet from a range of ecocritical and environmental perspectives. The collection uses planetary thought-action praxis that acknowledges the interconnectedness of all forms of life in addressing the socioecological issues facing humanity: accelerating climate change, over-exploitation of natural resources, and the Global North-South divide. With reference to contemporary cultural productions, such praxis seeks to examine the ideas, images, and narratives that either represent or impede potential disasters like the so-called sixth extinction of the planet, that inspire the dismantling of carbon democracies arising in the wake of neoliberalism, and that address rising inequality with precarious conditions in the transition to renewable energy. The different chapters explore literary and visual representations of planetary precarity, identifying crisis-responsive genres and cultural formats, and assessing approaches to environment-re/making that call for repair, recovery and sustainability. In imagining future habitability, they deploy diverse critical frameworks such as queer utopias, zero-waste lifestyles, alternative ecologies, and adaptations to the uninhabitable. The collection tackles problems of global vulnerability and examines precarity as a condition of resilience and resistance through collective actions and solidarities and innovative constructions of the planet's survival as a shared home. It engages with current postcolonial debates, uses intersectional methodologies, and introduces contemporary literary, visual concepts, and narrative types.

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