Discourses of Environmental Collapse [Hardcover]

In recent years,environmental collapse has become an important way of framing and imagining environmental change and destruction, referencing issues such as climate change, species extinction and deteriorating ecosystems. Given its pervasiveness across disciplines and spheres, this edited volume articulates environmental collapse as a discursive phenomenon worthy of sustained critical attention. Building upon contemporary conversations in the fields of archaeology and the natural sciences, this volume coalesces, explores and critically evaluates the diverse array of literatures and imaginaries that constitute environmental collapse. The volume is divided into three sectionsDoc- Collapse, Pop Collapse andCraft Collapsethat independently explore distinct modes of representing, and implicit attitudes toward, environmental collapse from the lenses of diverse fields of study including climate science and policy, cinema and photo journalism.

Bringing together a broad range of topics and authors, this volume will be of great interest to scholars of environmental communication and environmental humanities.

Lists of figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Culture and collapse: Theses on catastrophic history for the 21st century

Chapter 2: Are dead zones dead? Environmental collapse in popular media about eutrophication in sea-based systems.

Chapter 3: Can photojournalism steer clear of the siren song of collapse?

Chapter 4: Environmental collapse in comics: Reflections on Philippe Squarzonis Saison brune

Ann Gardiner