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Streeby, Shelley

 
9780520294455: Imagining the Future of Climate Change: World-Making through Science Fiction and Activism
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ISBN 10 : 0520294459 ISBN 13 : 9780520294455
Editeur : University of California Press, 2018

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

Shelley Streeby is Professor of Literature and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and Director of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop. She is the author of Radical Sensations and American Sensations and a coeditor of Empire and the Literature of Sensation.

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520294459
ISBN 13 
9780520294455
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
168
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780520294448: Imagining the Future of Climate Change: World-Making Through Science Fiction and Activism

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ISBN 10 :  0520294440 ISBN 13 :  9780520294448
Editeur : University of California Press, 2018
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