This volume examines scholarly perspectives on eco-imaginaries, focusing in particular on how eco-catastrophes have been represented in literature and different visual forms, including film, television and cartoons, among other cultural media. It draws on literary genres such as science fiction, climate fiction, speculative fiction, petrofiction, post-apocalyptic narratives and nuclear fiction to examine the role that literature plays in the dissemination of information about environmental crisis in the Anthropocene and in preparing mankind for a better and sustainable future. Deeply embedded in theoretical conceptualisations, the essays in this volume address issues of natural disasters, deforestation, nuclear disasters and pandemics, among others, which constitute the core subjects of environmental humanities.
A seminal study on the literary and cultural representations of ecodisaster in the global context, and with contributions from across the world, this book, truly interdisciplinary in nature, will be an invaluable read for students, academicians and researchers in literature, film studies, climate change studies, disaster studies, gender studies and cultural studies.
Edited by:
Scott Slovic,
Joyjit Ghosh,
Samit Kumar Maiti
Imprint: Routledge India
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032724195
ISBN 10: 1032724196
Pages: 290
Publication Date: 01 August 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
PART I: ANTHROPOCENE, ECOCATASTROPHE AND APOCALYPSE 1. “We Have So Little Time Left”: Portrayal of Environmental Catastrophe in Selected Poems from Reckoning 2. Unmasking the Risks of Climate Change in Liz Jensen’s The Rapture 3. Maja Lunde’s The End of the Ocean: A Narrative of Climate Change and Environmental Crisis 4. Subverting Anthropocentrism: A Critical Study of J. G. Ballard’s The Wind from Nowhere 5. Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for The Future: A Tale of Transcending Climate “Catastrophism” PART II: VULNERABILITY, PRECARITY AND RESILIENCE 6. “Climate Plague”, Precarious Lives and Resilience in a Post-apocalyptic World: Vignettes of Vulnerability in Sequoia Nagamatsu’s How High We Go in the Dark 7. Precarious Selves, (Dis)abled Bodies and Post-apocalyptic Narratives 8. Ecocatastrophe in the Literary Imagination: Confronting the Anthropocene through Narratives of Ecoprecarity from North-East India PART III: RESOURCE EXTRACTION, ECO-INJUSTICE AND RESISTANCE 9. Eco-Anxiety, Trauma and Resilience of the Dongria Kond Tribe of India: Locating the Literary and Cultural Responses of the Niyamgiri Movement in the Global Scenario 10. “We should have known our land would soon be dead”: Resource Curse, Petro-capital Extractivism and Survival Environmentalism in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were PART IV: DISASTER(S) AND DYSTOPIAN IMAGINARIES 11. The Literary Dimensions of Pagan Spirituality in Fictionalizing the Nuclear Tierratraumatic Experience 12. Some Things Are More Equal Than Others: Or, How to Read On the Beach 13. Gender, Famine, and Masculinities: An Ecofeminist Insight into the Irish Great Hunger 14. The Ecology of Reading Lithuanian Dystopia: The Cases of Dorandobongas by Jurgis Volandas and Ėko by Valdas Papievis PART V: CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER IN CINEMA 15. Don’t Look Up: Political Satire Crashes into the Contemporary Disaster Film 16. The City Τhat (Never) Dies: Film Noir Imagines the Urban Disorder, Disease and Disaster 17. ‘Toward an Otherwise’: Decolonizing Epistemology and Ecology in The Last Wave 18. Scorched Earth and Precarious Existence: A Study of Indian Anthropocene in Bollywood Films Kadvi Hawa and Jal PART VI: CLIMATE CHANGE AND CRITICAL THINKING IN OTHER CULTURAL MEDIA 19. From One World to Another: Immersion in Digital Games and its Relevance for Climate Change 20. Geopolitics of Climate Change Cartoons: Exploring Everyday Resistance through Visual Discourse
Scott Slovic is a senior scientist at the Oregon Research Institute and a distinguished professor of environmental humanities emeritus at the University of Idaho, USA. Joyjit Ghosh is Professor in the Department of English Literature, Language and Cultural Studies, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal, India. Samit Kumar Maiti is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Seva Bharati Mahavidyalaya, Kapgari, Jhargram, West Bengal, India.
