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E-book Anthropocene Childhoods : Speculative Fiction, Racialization, and Climate Crisis

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Since beginning this project, I have practiced a daily routine of scrolling through news sites and taking screenshots of Anthropocene-related stories. I have quickly accumulated quite an archive. Browsing through my collection, I log that most of the climate headlines are dark, dim, and foreboding. I also notice an increasing number of announcements about the end of the world. Some punchy headlines of late include “The Earth Is in a Death Spiral” (Monbiot, 2018), “We Have 12 Years Left” (Nunn, 2018), “Climate Change: 12 Years to Save the Planet? Make that 18 Months” (McGrath, 2019), “Our House Is on Fire” (Thunberg, 2019), “Code Red for Humanity” (The ndependent, 2021), and “Global Climate Crisis: Inevitable, Unprecedented and Irreversible” (Harvey, 2021). While it might seem bad form to date the opening of a book so strictly, the point I wish to make is that these headlines have become anything but exceptional. Announcements of end times are proliferating, and have only been amplified by the global Covid-19 pandemic. The exact wording may get shuffled around but climate change, extinction, and various geotemporal slights of hand make up the discourse of the Anthropocene—the new geological epoch marking destructive human impact on Earth system processes—and what in one of its more figurative iterations has been called the “Anthropomeme” (Macfarlane, 2016, para. 34).Words are not the only things meming these days. The new Anthropocene normal also takes shape through the repetition and replication of images. A view of planet earth from space burning red, polar bears wasting away on melting icebergs, population graphs with rhapsodic hockey stick curves, and plastic islands polluting acidic oceans to name but a few. One particular image, however, has stood out to me. The colors are brown, the landscape is barren, the sky is dark, and the ground is cracking: it is a dying earth. In the foreground is a lone figure—a young boy sitting in the dirt, playing with the bones of the deceased livestock that once grazed his family farm (see Figure 1). When the 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change study was released—the report that moved up the global over-warming threshold to 2030—this image accompanied summaries from The New York Times to the academic journal Nature to the Black Science Fiction Society blog.

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No. Panggil

370.1 ASH a

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London : Bloomsbury Academic., 2022

Deskripsi Fisik

209 hlm

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English

ISBN/ISSN

9781350262409

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370.1

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text

Tipe Media

computer

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online resource

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Philosophy and Theory of Education

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