Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown
This edited collection, which is situated within the environmental humanities and environmental social sciences, brings together utopian and dystopian representations of pandemics from across literature, the arts, and social movements. Featuring analyses of literary works, TV and film, theater,...
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| description | This edited collection, which is situated within the environmental humanities and environmental social sciences, brings together utopian and dystopian representations of pandemics from across literature, the arts, and social movements.
Featuring analyses of literary works, TV and film, theater, politics, and activism, the chapters in this volume home in on critical topics such as posthumanism, multispecies futures, agency, political ecology, environmental justice, and Indigenous and settler-colonial environmental relations. The book asks: how do pandemics and ecological breakdown show us the ways that humans are deeply interconnected with the more-than-human world? And what might we learn from exploring those entanglements, both within creative works and in lived reality? Brazilian, Indian, Polish, and Dutch texts feature alongside classic literary works like Defoe’s A Journal of a Plague Year (1722) and Matheson’s I Am Legend (1954), as well as broader takes on movements like global youth climate activism. These investigations are united by their thematic interests in the future of human and nonhuman relationships in the shadow of climate emergency and increasing pandemic risk, as well as in the glimmers of utopian hope they exhibit for the creation of more just futures.
This exploration of how pandemics illuminate the entangled materialities and shared vulnerabilities of all living things is an engaging and timely analysis that will appeal to environmentally minded researchers, academics, and students across various disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1425372025-07-21T15:45:00Z Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown Alberro, Heather Atasoy, Emrah Castle, Nora Firth, Rhiannon Scott, Conrad Environmental humanities;Science fiction;Pandemics;COVID-19;Utopia;Dystopia;Posthuman;Environmental justice;Ecology;Multispecies futures thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general This edited collection, which is situated within the environmental humanities and environmental social sciences, brings together utopian and dystopian representations of pandemics from across literature, the arts, and social movements. Featuring analyses of literary works, TV and film, theater, politics, and activism, the chapters in this volume home in on critical topics such as posthumanism, multispecies futures, agency, political ecology, environmental justice, and Indigenous and settler-colonial environmental relations. The book asks: how do pandemics and ecological breakdown show us the ways that humans are deeply interconnected with the more-than-human world? And what might we learn from exploring those entanglements, both within creative works and in lived reality? Brazilian, Indian, Polish, and Dutch texts feature alongside classic literary works like Defoe’s A Journal of a Plague Year (1722) and Matheson’s I Am Legend (1954), as well as broader takes on movements like global youth climate activism. These investigations are united by their thematic interests in the future of human and nonhuman relationships in the shadow of climate emergency and increasing pandemic risk, as well as in the glimmers of utopian hope they exhibit for the creation of more just futures. This exploration of how pandemics illuminate the entangled materialities and shared vulnerabilities of all living things is an engaging and timely analysis that will appeal to environmentally minded researchers, academics, and students across various disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. 2024-07-23T19:55:04Z 2024-07-23T19:55:04Z 2024-07-22T12:36:09Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92417 9781032385914 9781040090787 9781003345770 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/142537 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/92417/1/9781040090756.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/92417/1/9781040090756.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003345770 10.4324/9781003345770 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781032385914 9781040090787 9781003345770 Routledge 255 open access |
| spellingShingle | Environmental humanities;Science fiction;Pandemics;COVID-19;Utopia;Dystopia;Posthuman;Environmental justice;Ecology;Multispecies futures thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown |
| title | Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown |
| title_full | Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown |
| title_fullStr | Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown |
| title_full_unstemmed | Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown |
| title_short | Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown |
| title_sort | utopian and dystopian explorations of pandemics and ecological breakdown |
| topic | Environmental humanities;Science fiction;Pandemics;COVID-19;Utopia;Dystopia;Posthuman;Environmental justice;Ecology;Multispecies futures thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general |
| topic_facet | Environmental humanities;Science fiction;Pandemics;COVID-19;Utopia;Dystopia;Posthuman;Environmental justice;Ecology;Multispecies futures thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general |
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