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dc.contributor.authorMilner, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorBurgmann, J.R.
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-16T05:32:12Z
dc.date.available2023-03-16T05:32:12Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61715
dc.description.abstractDespite the occasional upsurge of climate change scepticism amongst Anglophone conservative politicians and journalists, there is still a near-consensus amongst climate scientists that current levels of atmospheric greenhouse gas are sufficient to alter global weather patterns to disastrous effect. The resultant climate crisis is simultaneously both a natural and a socio-cultural phenomenon and in this book Milner and Burgmann argue that science fiction occupies a critical location within this nature/culture nexus. Science Fiction and Climate Change takes as its subject matter what Daniel Bloom famously dubbed ‘cli-fi’. It does not, however, attempt to impose a prescriptively environmentalist aesthetic on this sub-genre. Rather, it seeks to explain how a genre defined in relation to science finds itself obliged to produce fictional responses to the problems actually thrown up by contemporary scientific research. Milner and Burgmann adopt a historically and geographically comparatist framework, analysing print and audio-visual texts drawn from a number of different contexts, especially Australia, Britain, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Japan and the United States. Inspired by Williams's cultural materialism, Bourdieu's sociology of culture and Moretti's version of world systems theory, the book builds on Milner’s own Locating Science Fiction to produce a powerfully persuasive study in the sociology of literature.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticismen_US
dc.subject.otherLiterary Criticism
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dc.titleScience Fiction and Climate Change
dc.title.alternativeA Sociological Approach
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy4dc2afaf-832c-43bc-9ac6-8ae6b31a53dc
oapen.relation.isbn9781789621723
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.imprintLiverpool University Press
oapen.identifierhttps://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/611a0828-a296-41cb-9d10-5db5de027c02


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