The Discourses of Environmental Collapse (eBook, ePUB)

Imagining the End
Redaktion: Vogelaar, Alison E.; Peat, Alexandra; Hale, Brack W.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Given its pervasiveness across disciplines and spheres, this edited volume articulates environmental collapse as a discursive phenomenon worthy of sustained critical attention. Bringing together a broad range of topics and authors, this volume will be of great interest to scholars of environmental communication and environmental humanities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315441429
• Artikelnr.: 56888676

Autorenporträt

Alison E. Vogelaar is Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Franklin University Switzerland, and co-editor of Changing Representations of Nature and the City: The 1960s-1970s and their Legacies (with Gabriel Lee, Routledge 2018). Brack W. Hale is Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Science at Franklin University Switzerland, where he is co-director of the Center for Sustainability Initiatives. Alexandra Peat is Associate Professor of Literature at Franklin University Switzerland, and author of Travel and Modernist Literature: Sacred and Ethical Journeys (Routledge, 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Lists of figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: 'Doc' Collapse
Chapter 1: Culture and collapse: Theses on catastrophic history for the
21st century
Michael Egan
Chapter 2: Are dead zones dead? Environmental collapse in popular media
about eutrophication in sea-based systems.
Jesse Peterson
Chapter 3: Can photojournalism steer clear of the siren song of collapse?
Joanna Nurmis
Chapter 4: Environmental collapse in comics: Reflections on Philippe
Squarzoni's Saison brune
Ann Gardiner
Part II: 'Pop' Collapse
Chapter 5: This is the end of the world as we know it: Narratives of
collapse and transformation in archaeology and popular culture
Guy D. Middleton
Chapter 6: Survive, thrive, or perish: Environmental collapse in
post-apocalyptic digital games
Jennifer England
Chapter 7: Zooming out, closing in: Ecology at the end of the frontier
Alison E. Vogelaar and Brack Hale
Part III: 'Craft' Collapse
Chapter 8: Imagining the apocalypse: Valences of collapse in McCarthy,
Burtynsky and Goldsworthy
I. J. MacRae
Chapter 9: 'Something akin to what's killing bees': The poetry of colony
collapse disorder Matthew Griffiths
Chapter 10: Salvaging the fragments: Metaphors for collapse in Virginia
Woolf and Station Eleven
Alexandra Peat