Climate Change and the Contemporary Novel

Johns‐Putra, Adeline

doi:10.1017/9781108610162

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“…There are a wealth of narrative models that incorporate social, political, and cultural factors and systems alongside the physical models. Literary studies can expand existing analysis of, and argument from, these narrative models (Goodbody & Johns-Putra, 2018;Johns-Putra, 2019a, 2019bSperling, 2020;Trexler, 2015) to demonstrate their cognitive value to public reasoning. For example, late 20th-century storylistening might usefully have attended to early anthropogenic climate change stories published as public consciousness of climate science and its findings began to rise (e.g., Blish, 1969;Herzog, 1977;Le Guin, 1971;Pohl, 1959).…”

Section: Modeling: Recognizing Gaps and Expanding Ensembles Of Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Storylistening: How narrative evidence can improve public reasoning about climate change

Dillon

Craig²

2022

WIREs Climate Change

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Stories have cognitive value-listened to carefully and expertly, they provide knowledge. That knowledge is captured and presented in narrative evidencethe product of the expert act of critical engagement with stories, and with others' engagement with stories. Storylistening is the theory and practice of gathering narrative evidence to inform decision-making, especially in relation to public reasoning, as part of a pluralistic evidence base. Storylistening is necessary to counter the political deployment of partial, selective, or misinterpreted narrative evidence. There are four ways in which stories can contribute to public reasoning about climate change. Stories play a role in reframing the "idea" of climate change, as well as being integral to many of the new disciplines, perspectives and knowledges drawn in as relevant by that reframing. Stories create and cohere collective identities and climate change beliefs and behavior. Narrative models complement and supplement computational models, creating an ensemble of models that more adequately covers the gaps that result from only deploying big, global, generalized models. Stories play a crucial role in enabling better anticipation for decision-making, and storylistening can enable the use of narrative evidence from narrative futures methods, as well as perhaps improve the ways scientific evidence about the future is also listened to. Incorporating storylistening into public reasoning about climate change requires the evolution of advisory systems and of the academic humanities, and can play a role in the urgent need to democratize public reasoning about climate change.

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Section: Modeling: Recognizing Gaps and Expanding Ensembles Of Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Storylistening: How narrative evidence can improve public reasoning about climate change

Dillon

Craig²

2022

WIREs Climate Change

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“…As Bowers [29] insightfully argues, "other traditions provide the basis of living less commodified livesand thus do not contribute to degrading the environment in ways that threaten the health of marginalized groups, including future generations" (p. 33). Modern environmental conservationists have similarly acknowledged that 'we do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children' [112][113][114][115].…”

Section: Systemic Sustainability: Hope and The Promise Of Possibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Nature Sports: Prospects for Sustainability

Rheenen

Melo

2021

Sustainability

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This paper articulates a paradigm shift in the adoption of a critical ecopedagogy focused on substantive and systemic change within nature sports. In analyzing the unifying concept of nature sports, we propose an ontological shift towards genuine sustainability, a communion among people and with nature. These activities comprise a group of physical practices that have the potential to challenge participants in novel ways that provide an alternative to traditional sports and the ideological values associated with these dominant sports, such as competition and personal gain. Nature sports inscribe meaning on bodies in motion, with a blurring or erasure of boundaries, as participants become one with nature rather than seeking to exploit or conquer it. These novel and countercultural practices promise the possibility of systemic sustainability, as participants redefine sport in terms of relational equity and ecoliteracy. As a utopian project, this systems approach recognizes the nature-sport nexus as a living framework to honor culturally appropriate practices and traditions in building an ecological movement centered on environmental justice. In this way, nature sports offer an opportunity to reimagine sustainable development through the promotion of a circular, rather than linear, economy—an economy based on re-creation rather than exploitation and waste.

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“…The study of climate change videogames is part of the larger field of green, or environmental, media studies. Following the rise of climate change fiction and its enthusiastic embrace by literary scholars (Johns-Putra, 2019;Trexler, 2015), a similar undertaking has taken off in the field of videogame studies, where questions about how videogames engage with the environment and environmental collapse are being asked more and more frequently (Abraham & Jayemanne, 2017;Chang, 2019;Chang & Parham, 2017;Condis, 2015;Kunzelman, 2020;Lundblade, 2020;Millburn, 2018;Raessens, 2019aRaessens, , 2019b. Until a decade ago, however, videogames explicitly dealing with climate change were few and far between, nor did they garner very much commercial or critical success.…”

Section: Green Media Green Gamesmentioning

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Premediating climate change in videogames: Repetition, mastery, and failure

Beke

2021

Nordic Journal of Media Studies

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This article starts with the observation that growth-oriented, techno-futurist narratives are predominant in climate change videogames. It then accounts for the lack of variety by arguing that these videogames are privileged expressions of premediation. Premediation cultivates a multiplicity of future scenarios, while at the same time delimiting them to suit presentist concerns, evoking a sense of inevitability and predictability strengthened by repetition. The iterative, branching temporality at work in this logic is deeply ingrained in videogames, as the trope of mastery through repetition and its analysis requires attentiveness to the affective dimensions of gameplay. If videogames are to engage with the climate crisis more productively, they must develop different temporalities in which the potentiality of the future is preserved. In this article, I analyse the games Fate of the World and The Stillness of the Wind to demonstrate how videogames premediate climate change and how they can explore other temporalities latent in the present.

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Climate Change and the Contemporary Novel

Abstract: Science and technology provided the methods, the content and the ideology to make a certain kind of future thinkable. It is a future deeply moulded by the belief in progress.

Cited by 122 publications

References 78 publications

Storylistening: How narrative evidence can improve public reasoning about climate change

Storylistening: How narrative evidence can improve public reasoning about climate change

Nature Sports: Prospects for Sustainability

Premediating climate change in videogames: Repetition, mastery, and failure

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