Climate Change, Interrupted: Representation and the Remaking of Time

Barbara Leckie's book "Climate Change, Interrupted" rethinks climate change through the lens of time, arguing that linear temporalities are inadequate for the crisis and advocating for an approach of interruption to rethink prevailing frameworks. It reinflects and cowrites the traditions and knowledges of the long nineteenth century and the current period in the spirit of climate action collaboration. The book invites scholars and activists to participate in the conversation and tells a different story of the climate crisis.

Format: Hardback
Length: 274 pages
Publication date: 01 October 2022
Publisher: Stanford University Press

In the face of the climate crisis, Barbara Leckie, a scholar of Victorian studies, sees it as a problem of time. Spanning the long nineteenth century to the present day, her interdisciplinary approach to climate change challenges prevailing temporal frameworks and emphasizes the urgent need for climate action.

Climate Change, Interrupted argues that linear and progress-oriented temporalities are inadequate for addressing a crisis that defies their terms. Instead, the book proposes a theory and practice of interruption to rethink these frameworks. It also models the anachronistic, time-blending, and time-layering temporality it advocates. Through a series of experimental chapters inspired by the unlikely trio of Walter Benjamin, Donna Haraway, and Virginia Woolf, Leckie reflects and rewrites the traditions and knowledge of the long nineteenth century and the current period in the spirit of climate action collaboration.

The current moment calls for diverse approaches, encourages risk-taking, and invites scholars and activists skilled in storytelling to participate in the conversation. Climate Change, Interrupted, therefore, invests in interruption to tell a different story of the climate crisis.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781503633070