Narrative in the Anthropocene

James, Erin

doi:10.26818/9780814215074

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“…The relationships between humans and ecologies are complex, often in ways that can be difficult to recognize over time—even in the timeframes in which we live. In approaching the anthropause as narratives of the now, one can extend Erin James’s (2022) suggestion that, “The Anthropocene is both a narrative and is incapable of being narrated, at once a story unfinished and not a story at all” (p. 3).…”

Section: The Anthropause?: Revisiting Narratives Of the Nowmentioning

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Abstracts and Their Mysterious In-Betweens: Attuning to the Lacuna of Scholarly Communications

Ulmer

Salvo

2022

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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Reorganizing our library during the pandemic, James secretly placed Jasmine’s copy of The Hundreds by his copy of Exercises in Style, the latter offering 99 different narrations of the same story. In our accidentally large archive of abstracts for which we never wrote papers, we had a collection of constrained writings, all iterations of our shared research narrative. Many of these were unsubmitted responses to calls for papers (CFPs), conferences we were not able to attend, or papers we never got around to writing. We share the following sample of 24 abstracts here as an invitation, should anyone wish to develop these ideas. Furthermore, abstracts themselves constitute a genre of scholarly communications, the art of which might be developed to make research more accessible, abstracts themselves being situated in front of paywalls. Ultimately, this project led to the 25th abstract and introduction to our podcast, the Researchers’ Cardbox.

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Section: The Anthropause?: Revisiting Narratives Of the Nowmentioning

confidence: 99%

Abstracts and Their Mysterious In-Betweens: Attuning to the Lacuna of Scholarly Communications

Ulmer

Salvo

2022

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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Climate Change Literacy

Hoydis

Bartosch

Gurr

2023

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This Element presents a necessary intervention within the rapidly expanding field of research in the environmental humanities on climate change and environmental literacy. In contrast to the dominant, science-centred literacy debates, which largely ignore the unique resources of the humanities, it asks: How does literary reading contribute to climate change communication? How does this contribution relate to recent demands for environmental and related literacies? Rather than reducing the function of literature to a more pleasurable form of information transfer or its affective dimension of evoking sympathy, climate change literacy thoroughly reassesses the cognitive, affective, and pedagogic potentials of literary writing. It does so by analysing a selection of popular climate novels and by demonstrating the role of fiction in fostering a more adequate understanding of, and response to, climate change. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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