1st Edition

Law, Fiction and Activism in a Time of Climate Change

By Nicole Rogers Copyright 2020
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

The book examines the narratives of climate change which have developed and which are currently evolving in three areas: law, fiction and activism. Narratives of climate change generated by litigants, judges, writers of fiction and activists are having, and will have, a profound effect on the way we respond to the climate change crisis. Acknowledging the prevalence of unreliable narrators,... Read more

TABLE OF CONTENTS





 



1 Narrating Climate Change





2 Climate Catastrophism and Legal Aporia





3 Telling the Tale of the Children





4 The Narrative of Rights on a Warming Planet





5 Wild Time





6 Beyond Reason, Beyond Rules





7 The Sense of an Ending



Biography

Nicole Rogers is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law and Justice, Southern Cross University, Australia. From 2014 to 2017, she instigated and co-led the Wild Law Judgment project, and she is co-editor of Law as If Earth Really Mattered: The Wild Law Judgment Project (Routledge, 2017).