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Imagining the Future of Climate Change
This title is part of American Studies Now and available as an e-book first. Visit ucpress.edu/go/americanstudiesnow to learn more.
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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\Ten dams for one delta seen from space\: envisioning environmentalism in Nadine Gordimer's Get a Life
While South African environmental activism has progressed and blossomed substantially since the 1990s, there still is no popular unified environmental movement. Some critics, such as Carl Death argue the lack of unification makes it difficult to address environmental grievances. Nadine Gordimer's Get a Life responds to this environmental problematic. Weaving in and out of the Bannerman family's thoughts, Get a Life explores what ecology and environmentalism can mean in South Africa when it is visualized from a suburban, middle-class, well-meaning male point of view. This paper examines the way the novel portrays vision, omission, and invisibility. By exploring Get a Life's motif of vision, I show that the three visions portrayed (above, below, and on the ground) all highlight distance-distance that makes it difficult to overcome borders and imagine communities, even as the ecologist voices concerns about problematic land redistribution and the effects of consumer capitalism. Privileging the visual makes black communities, and the environmental violence they suffer, invisible. Get a Life imagines a complicated terrain for South African environmental activists to navigate, in which every environmental impulse is haunted by histories of uneven development and bears global connections without critical reflection.
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THE LIMITS OF MY MEDIA
Beginnings have always been particularly difficult for Moran. At times he has been tempted to emulate Professor Irwin Corey, a comic who bills himself as the \"world's leading authority,\" who begins his act with the words, \"On the other hand...\" or \"In conclusion...\" What appeals to him about Corey's approach is that it recognizes the dynamic of language; their semantic environment is a process that begins with their birth and ends with death, and these little artificial beginnings and endings are but a convenient fiction. As his friend Charlie Weingartner likes to remind him, that the major purpose of language is to create the illusion of certainty in an uncertain universe. And so he should like to begin this talk with some words of his own, some illusions of certainty. He wants to talk about media and the communication process from three points of view. In formulating these three approaches he is indebted intellectually to Professor Anatol Rapoport for providing him with a workable paradigm for his own structures.
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A Land-Based Approach to Postcolonial, Post-Modern Novels
With an eye on how post-colonial novels by authors Chinua Achebe and Ngugi Wa Thiong'o address aesthetic and environmental problems that preceded the Modern period, the intent of this essay is to emphasize how their fiction connects readers with a pre-industrial, pre-modern, and, strangely enough, radically new ways of thinking about books and the living world beyond them. To this end, the essay looks at this non-western literature through the lens of ecologist Aldo Leopold's land-based ideas regarding epistemology, ethics, and ecology. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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Earth in Our Care
\"What about the twenty-first century? Will we finally accept our responsibilities as guardians of planet Earth, the biological living trust, for the beneficiaries, the children of today, tomorrow, and beyond? Or, will it too be a century of lethal, economic struggle among the polarized positions of the supremely dysfunctional among us? Are they-once again-to be allowed to determine the legacy we, as a society, as a nation, bequeath those who follow us? The choice is ours, the adults of the world. How shall we choose?\"
So writes Chris Maser in this compelling study of three interactive spheres of the ecosystem: atmosphere (air), litho-hydrosphere (rock that comprises the restless continents and the water that surrounds them), and biosphere (all life sandwiched in between).
Rich in detail and insightful analogies,Earth in Our Careaddresses key issues including land-use policies, ecological restoration, forest management, local living, and sustainability thinking. Exploring our interconnectedness with the Earth, Maser examines today's problems and, more importantly, provides solutions for the future.
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Some naked mole rats are designated toilet cleaners, study suggests
For eusocial mammals, the queen reproduces, while most of the other members of the colony — which can stretch across several miles of tunnels — are sterile workers. RELATED STORIES —Mystery creature found in 'forbidden cloud forest' of Peru is new species of marsupial —33-inch-long 'woolly' mountain rat caught on camera for first time ever —Mice administer 'first-aid' to friends — even trying to bring the dead back to life Different behaviors could emerge in a complex, natural burrow system with long tunnels where animals need to dig to find enough roots to feed dozens or more colony members, rather than having food supplied, he said. While traveling through these long tunnels, the animals often establish their place in the social hierarchy by shoving, interacting or avoiding each other as they pass, Faulkes said, which would then influence their behavior within the colony.
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