Imagining the Future of Climate Change

World-Making through Science Fiction and Activism

Shelley Streeby (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

168 Seiten

2018
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-29445-5 (ISBN)

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This title is part of American Studies Now and available as an e-book first. Visit ucpress.edu/go/americanstudiesnow to learn more. From the 1960s to the present, activists, artists, and science fiction writers have imagined the consequences of climate change and its impacts on our future. Authors such as Octavia Butler and Leslie Marmon Silko, movie directors such as Bong Joon-Ho, and creators of digital media such as the makers of the Maori web series Anamata Future News have all envisioned future worlds in the wake of imminent environmental collapse, engaging audiences to think about the Earth's sustainability. As public awareness of climate change has grown, so has the popularity of imaginative works of climate fiction that connect science with activism. Today real world social movements helmed by Indigenous people and people of color are leading the way against the greatest threat to our environment: the fossil fuel industry.
It is through these stories and movements by Natives and people of color-both in the real world and imagined through science fiction-that we understand the relationship between culture and activism and how both can be a valuable tool in creating our future. Imagining the Future of Climate Change introduces readers to the history and most significant flashpoints in climate justice through speculative fictions and social movements to explore post-disaster possibilities and the art of world-making.

Shelley Streeby is Professor of Literature and Ethnic Studies at UC San Diego and Director of the Clarion Writing Workshop. She is the author of Radical Sensations, American Sensations, and co-editor of Empire and the Literature of Sensation. She is Associate Editor of American Quarterly.

Overview

Introduction
Imagining the Future of Climate Change

1. #NoDAPL
Native American and Indigenous Science, Fiction, and Futurisms

2. Climate Refugees in the Greenhouse World
Archiving Global Warming with Octavia E. Butler

3. Climate Change as a World Problem
Shaping Change in the Wake of Disaster

Acknowledgments
Notes
Glossary
Key Figures
Selected Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	29.01.2018
Reihe/Serie	American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present ; 5
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 210 mm
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	0-520-29445-9 / 0520294459
ISBN-13	978-0-520-29445-5 / 9780520294455
Zustand	Neuware