The volume examines forms and functions of fictional and factual anticipatory environmental (hi)stories from antiquity to the Anthropocene, offering a diachronic as well as cross-cultural perspective on how different authors and societies have imagined their respective future environments.
The volume examines forms and functions of fictional and factual anticipatory environmental (hi)stories from antiquity to the Anthropocene, offering a diachronic as well as cross-cultural perspective on how different authors and societies have imagined their respective future environments.
Edited by Christopher Schliephake and Evi Zemanek - Contributions by Diana G. Barnes; Helga G. Braunbeck; Gregory J. Dehler; James Dunk; Jasmin Hettinger; Richard Hutchins; Darrel Janzen; Serge Leopold Middendorf; Astrid Möller; Caroline Petit; Lena Pfeif
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Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Anticipating Environmental Futures Beyond Pastoral and Apocalyptic Visions Christopher Schliephake and Evi Zemanek Part I. Dialogues Between Times and Places Chapter 1. Experience and Expectations: Hesiod on Work, Justice, and Environment Astrid Möller Chapter 2. Ancient Geographies of Health and Environmental Acumen: An Anticipatory Narrative in Galen (Method of Healing V, 12) Caroline Petit Chapter 3. The Past Is a Foreign Environment: Some Observations on Roman Wetland Drainage in Ancient and Modern Discourse Jasmin Hettinger Chapter 4. Future Imperfect in Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender (1579) Diana G. Barnes Chapter 5. Retrospective Prophecy in Contemporary Maya Literature: Chim Bacab's Flower of Memory Charles M. Pigott Part II. Extinction and Conservation Chapter 6. Feeling Like a Species: The Environmental Future in Lucretius Richard Hutchins Chapter 7. Anticipating Multispecies Thinking in Plutarch's Animal Treatises Christopher Schliephake Chapter 8. William Temple Hornaday's Haunting Vision of a Wildlife Apocalypse Gregory J. Dehler Chapter 9. Anticipating Extinction: Mammoths, Elephants, and the Late-19th-Century Ivory Trade Rebecca J. H. Woods Chapter 10. Narrating Civilizational Collapse in the Anthropocene: Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway's The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future (2014) Lena Pfeifer Part III. Urban Environments Chapter 11. Sensing Noise, Sensing Space: Environmental Perceptions and the Impact on Future Urban Space in Germany and the United Kingdom (1900-1930) Heiner Stahl Chapter 12. The Arcologies of Paolo Soleri: Unbuilt Futures from the Past Serge Leopold Middendorf Chapter 13. Utopia's User Interface: Geoengineering, Smart Cities, and Glass Life in Niklas Maak's Novel Technophoria Helga G. Braunbeck Part IV. Climate(s) and Materialities Chapter 14. Solastalgia, Future Memory, and Polluted Landscapes in Lucan's Bellum Civile 7 Darrel Janzen Chapter 15. Nuclear Winter: Science, Fiction, and Temporal Violence James Dunk Chapter 16. 'Nature in Order' or Human Agency? Visions of the Future in the Long Nineteenth-Century Newspaper Climate Change Discourse Falko Schnicke Chapter 17. Explaining Climate Change and Predicting Its Impacts: The Popularization of Brückner's Theory on Climate Variations as an Anticipatory Narrative Karolin Wetjen Chapter 18. Ecology in a Loop: Cyclical History and Alternative Epistemologies in Ella Hickson's Oil Martin Riedelsheimer and Leila Michelle Vaziri About the Contributors
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Anticipating Environmental Futures Beyond Pastoral and Apocalyptic Visions Christopher Schliephake and Evi Zemanek Part I. Dialogues Between Times and Places Chapter 1. Experience and Expectations: Hesiod on Work, Justice, and Environment Astrid Möller Chapter 2. Ancient Geographies of Health and Environmental Acumen: An Anticipatory Narrative in Galen (Method of Healing V, 12) Caroline Petit Chapter 3. The Past Is a Foreign Environment: Some Observations on Roman Wetland Drainage in Ancient and Modern Discourse Jasmin Hettinger Chapter 4. Future Imperfect in Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender (1579) Diana G. Barnes Chapter 5. Retrospective Prophecy in Contemporary Maya Literature: Chim Bacab's Flower of Memory Charles M. Pigott Part II. Extinction and Conservation Chapter 6. Feeling Like a Species: The Environmental Future in Lucretius Richard Hutchins Chapter 7. Anticipating Multispecies Thinking in Plutarch's Animal Treatises Christopher Schliephake Chapter 8. William Temple Hornaday's Haunting Vision of a Wildlife Apocalypse Gregory J. Dehler Chapter 9. Anticipating Extinction: Mammoths, Elephants, and the Late-19th-Century Ivory Trade Rebecca J. H. Woods Chapter 10. Narrating Civilizational Collapse in the Anthropocene: Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway's The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future (2014) Lena Pfeifer Part III. Urban Environments Chapter 11. Sensing Noise, Sensing Space: Environmental Perceptions and the Impact on Future Urban Space in Germany and the United Kingdom (1900-1930) Heiner Stahl Chapter 12. The Arcologies of Paolo Soleri: Unbuilt Futures from the Past Serge Leopold Middendorf Chapter 13. Utopia's User Interface: Geoengineering, Smart Cities, and Glass Life in Niklas Maak's Novel Technophoria Helga G. Braunbeck Part IV. Climate(s) and Materialities Chapter 14. Solastalgia, Future Memory, and Polluted Landscapes in Lucan's Bellum Civile 7 Darrel Janzen Chapter 15. Nuclear Winter: Science, Fiction, and Temporal Violence James Dunk Chapter 16. 'Nature in Order' or Human Agency? Visions of the Future in the Long Nineteenth-Century Newspaper Climate Change Discourse Falko Schnicke Chapter 17. Explaining Climate Change and Predicting Its Impacts: The Popularization of Brückner's Theory on Climate Variations as an Anticipatory Narrative Karolin Wetjen Chapter 18. Ecology in a Loop: Cyclical History and Alternative Epistemologies in Ella Hickson's Oil Martin Riedelsheimer and Leila Michelle Vaziri About the Contributors
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