The Rise of the Climate Change Novel

Goodbody, Axel; Johns‐Putra, Adeline

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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, 2019b; Sperling, 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).…”

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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 Trexler continues (2015: 14), the demands made by climate change on linear narrative ‘threaten to rupture the defining features of genre: literary novels bleed into science fiction; suspense novels have surprising elements of realism; realist depictions of everyday life involuntarily become biting satire’. If the evergrowing field now known as climate fiction, or ‘Cli-Fi’ – which invariably collapses the linear temporal scales of past, present and future – challenges conventional scholarly discourse by defying, blending and borrowing from multiple elements of existing forms and genres (Goodbody and Johns-Putra, 2018), then the renewed interest in posthuman narrative systems – that we are here attempting, and for which we are advocating – must surely take account of this work.…”

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Apocalypse yesterday: Posthumanism and comics in the Anthropocene

Menga

Davies

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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It is widely recognised that the growing awareness that we are living in the Anthropocenean unstable geological epoch in which humans and their actions are catalysing catastrophic environmental change-is troubling humanity's understanding and perception of temporality and the ways in which we come to terms with socio-ecological change. This article begins by arguing in favour of posthumanism as an approach to this problem, one in which the prefix 'post' does not come as an apocalyptic warning, but rather signals a new way of thinking, an encouragement to move beyond a humanist perspective, and to abandon a social discourse and a worldview fundamentally centred on the human. The article then explores how the impending environmental catastrophe can be productively reimagined through graphic narratives, arguing that popular culture in general, and comics in particular, emerge as productive sites for geographers to interrogate and develop posthuman methodologies and narratives. Developing our analysis around two comics in particular-Here (McGuire, 2014) and Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller et al., 2015)we show how graphic narrative can help us to move beyond the nature-society divide that is rendered anachronistic by the Anthropocene.

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“…There has been a considerable amount of scholarship on climate fiction (cli‐fi), whereas climate change poetry has garnered relatively less attention from both readers and critics 2 . If cli‐fi can help, to borrow the words of Goodbody and Johns‐Putra (2019), “define our perception of climate change, while drawing out its social and political, philosophical and ethical implications” (p. 245), can poetry achieve the same effect? To put in another way, how can poetry, the oldest form of literature, respond to the current climatic crises and provoke activism from readers to deal with them?…”

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Climate change in contemporary British and Irish poetry and poetic criticism: Literary representation and environmental activism

Xie

2022

WIREs Climate Change

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Much ink has been spilt on the study of climate change fiction (cli-fi), whereas relatively less attention has been devoted to the burgeoning growth of climate change poetry. As a sub-genre of ecopoetry which aims at dealing with realistic environmental issues and raising readers' awareness to protect the earth, climate change poetry not only represents the ongoing climatic crises in varied ways, be they realistic or imaginative, but also actively engages in provoking ecological responsibilities and environmental activism. This article is an overview of contemporary British and Irish climate change poetry and its literary criticism. Having emerged at the end of the 20th century in the United Kingdom, this poetic genre cuts across literature and environment, rising both as a prominent literary mode and an important environmental phenomenon. Interdisciplinarity, multiple topics, environmental activism, and experimentation are its primary characteristics. Current scholarship on contemporary British and Irish climate change poetry is limited and it mainly adopts theories of ecocriticism and the Anthropocene. Climate justice, poetry and activism, and comparative literary perspective are among promising avenues for the future study of this new poetic genre. Contemporary British and Irish climate change poetry, and its criticism, indicate both poets and critics' efforts to represent and, more importantly, to grapple with ongoing climate change. This article is categorized under: Trans-disciplinary Perspectives > Humanities and the Creative Arts Climate, Nature, and Ethics > Ethics and Climate Change K E Y W O R D S climate change poetry, ecocriticism, ecopoetry, environmental activism, poetic criticism 1 | INTRODUCTION Literary studies have witnessed a rise of "climate change criticism" since 2010. Special issues of journals and conferences devoted to climate change frequently appeared. 1 There has been a considerable amount of scholarship on climate

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The Rise of the Climate Change Novel

Cited by 12 publications

References 174 publications

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

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

Apocalypse yesterday: Posthumanism and comics in the Anthropocene

Climate change in contemporary British and Irish poetry and poetic criticism: Literary representation and environmental activism

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