1st Edition
The Discourses of Environmental Collapse Imagining the End
216 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
216 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
216 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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In recent years, ‘environmental collapse’ has become an important way of framing and imagining environmental change and destruction, referencing issues such as climate change, species extinction and deteriorating ecosystems. Given its pervasiveness across disciplines and spheres, this edited volume articulates environmental collapse as a discursive phenomenon worthy of sustained critical... Read more
Introduction, Brack W. Hale and Alison E. Vogelaar 1. This is the End of the World as We Know It: Narratives of Collapse across Genres, Guy D. Middleton Part I: Doc Collapse 2. The Limits to Growth and the Birth of Collapse Science, Brack W. Hale and Alison E. Vogelaar 3. Clandestine Disposal: Toxic Waste and the Fear of Collapse in the American 1980s, Michael Egan 4. Collapse, the Great and the Slow: Climate Science and Policy in a Changing Climate, Sergio Fava Part II: Pop Collapse 5. Act Now or Survive Later: Coming to Terms with "Environmental Collapse" in Wasteland 2 and Post-Apocalyptic/Survivalist Video Games, Jennifer England 6. Relishing the Collapse? The Uncertain Effect of Climate Change News Photographs, Joanna Nurmis 7. Cinematic Ecocide: Environmental Collapse and Entertainment in Hollywood Film, Alexa Weik von Mossner Part III: Craft Collapse 8. The Resilience of Symbols: Posthuman Hopefulness in Atwood’s "MaddAddam" Trilogy, Bjarke Liboriussen 9. Salvage in the Ruins: Virginia Woolf and Modernist Literature, Alex Peat 10. Visualizing Disaster in Comics: Josh Neufeld’s A.D. New Orleans,
Biography
Alison E. Vogelaar is Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Franklin University Switzerland, and co-editor of Changing Representations of Nature and the City: The 1960s-1970s and their Legacies (with Gabriel Lee, Routledge 2018).
Brack W. Hale is Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Science at Franklin University Switzerland, where he is co-director of the Center for Sustainability Initiatives.
Alexandra Peat is Associate Professor of Literature at Franklin University Switzerland, and author of Travel and Modernist Literature: Sacred and Ethical Journeys (Routledge, 2011).
