The Discourses of Environmental Collapse

Lists of figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1: 'Doc' Collapse

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

Michael Egan

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

Jesse Peterson

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

Joanna Nurmis

Chapter 4: Environmental collapse in comics: Reflections on Philippe Squarzoni's Saison brune

Ann Gardiner

Part II: 'Pop' Collapse

Chapter 5: This is the end of the world as we know it: Narratives of collapse and transformation in archaeology and popular culture

Guy D. Middleton

Chapter 6: Survive, thrive, or perish: Environmental collapse in post-apocalyptic digital games

Jennifer England

Chapter 7: Zooming out, closing in: Ecology at the end of the frontier

Alison E. Vogelaar and Brack Hale

Part III: 'Craft' Collapse

Chapter 8: Imagining the apocalypse: Valences of collapse in McCarthy, Burtynsky and Goldsworthy

I. J. MacRae

Chapter 9: 'Something akin to what's killing bees': The poetry of colony collapse disorder Matthew Griffiths

Chapter 10: Salvaging the fragments: Metaphors for collapse in Virginia Woolf and Station Eleven

Alexandra Peat