Storying the Ecocatastrophe: Contemporary Narratives about the Environmental Collapse

Writers and artists use various representational strategies and ideological goals to stir audiences to political action or raise environmental awareness without appearing didactic. Storying the Ecocatastrophe examines these strategies and goals across different genres and languages, demonstrating that rising temperatures, erratic weather, extinction of species, depletion of resources, and coastal erosion and flooding are an effect of our abusive relationship with nature. It also shows that human activity has indirectly contributed to other contemporary crises, such as the migrant crisis and the spread of contagious diseases. Chapter 8 of the book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF.

Format: Hardback
Length: 280 pages
Publication date: 31 May 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The book "Storying the Ecocatastrophe" explores how writers and artists represent the climate catastrophe in their works to stir audiences to political action or raise environmental awareness without appearing didactic. The collection of essays examines the representational strategies and ideological goals of contemporary cultural productions about climate change, which have been created across different genres, languages, and cultures. The volumes twelve chapters demonstrate that rising temperatures, erratic weather, extinction of species, depletion of resources, and coastal erosion and flooding are an effect of our abusive relationship with nature. They also show that our use of nuclear power, extraction of natural resources, and extensive farming, including heavy reliance on pesticides, intersect with intrahuman violence, as fleshed out by heteropatriarchy, racism, (neo)colonialism, and capitalism. They finally argue that human activity has indirectly contributed to other contemporary crises, namely the migrant crisis and the spread of contagious diseases such as Covid-19. Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032726946