Imagining the Future of Climate Change : World-Making Through Science Fiction and Activism.

By:

Streeby, Shelley

Material type: Text

TextSeries: American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present SeriesPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (169 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520967557

Subject(s):

Climatic changes

Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Imagining the Future of Climate ChangeDDC classification:

304.280897

LOC classification:

QC902.9.S774 2018

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Contents:

Cover -- Imagining the Future of Climate Change -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- 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.

Summary: 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 during and after environmental collapse, engaging audiences to think about the earth's sustainability. As public awareness of climate change has grown, so has the popularity of 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. Their stories and movements--in the real world and through science fiction--help us all better understand the relationship between activism and culture, and how both can be valuable tools 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, exploring post-disaster possibilities and the art of world-making.

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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 during and after environmental collapse, engaging audiences to think about the earth's sustainability. As public awareness of climate change has grown, so has the popularity of 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. Their stories and movements--in the real world and through science fiction--help us all better understand the relationship between activism and culture, and how both can be valuable tools 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, exploring post-disaster possibilities and the art of world-making.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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