Science Fiction and Climate Change: A Sociological Approach - Couverture souple

Milner, Andrew; Burgmann, J.R.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1802076948 ISBN 13 : 9781802076943

Editeur : Liverpool University Press, 2022

Synopsis

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched. Shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Best Non-Fiction Award 2020 Shortlisted for the Locus Science Fiction Foundation Non-Fiction Award 2021 Despite the occasional upsurge of climate change scepticism amongst Anglophone conservative politicians and journalists, there is still a near-consensus amongst climate scientists that current levels of atmospheric greenhouse gas are sufficient to alter global weather patterns to disastrous effect. The resultant climate crisis is simultaneously both a natural and a socio-cultural phenomenon and in this book Milner and Burgmann argue that science fiction occupies a critical location within this nature/culture nexus. Science Fiction and Climate Change takes as its subject matter what Daniel Bloom famously dubbed ‘cli-fi’. It does not, however, attempt to impose a prescriptively environmentalist aesthetic on this sub-genre. Rather, it seeks to explain how a genre defined in relation to science finds itself obliged to produce fictional responses to the problems actually thrown up by contemporary scientific research. Milner and Burgmann adopt a historically and geographically comparatist framework, analysing print and audio-visual texts drawn from a number of different contexts, especially Australia, Britain, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Japan and the United States. Inspired by Williams's cultural materialism, Bourdieu's sociology of culture and Moretti's version of world systems theory, the book builds on Milner’s own Locating Science Fiction to produce a powerfully persuasive study in the sociology of literature.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Andrew Milner is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Monash University. J.R. Burgmann is a PhD student in Creative Writing at Monash University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liverpool University Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1802076948
• ISBN 13: 9781802076943
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible