
The Future of Humanity
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Sarah Fiona Winters is Associate Professor in English Studies at Nipissing University, Canada. Her research focuses on the representations of evil in post-war children's fantasy and on the relationship of fandom studies to digital pedagogies. She has published articles on C. S. Lewis, Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Suzanne Collins, and Margaret Mahy.
Laurie Kruk is Professor of English Studies at Nipissing University, Canada. She has published The Voice Is the Story: Conversations with Canadian Writers of Short Fiction (2003) and Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story (2016). She has also published three collections of poetry: Theories of the World (1992), Loving the Alien (2006), and My Mother Did Not Tell Stories (2012).
Content
Part I: Humanity, Big History, and Politics of Progress, Sarah Winters
Chapter One: Humanity Has a Choice: Our Common Future from a Big History Perspective, Fred Spier
Chapter Two: Investing in Disaster: Technical Progress and the Taboo of Diminishing Returns, David Witzling
Chapter Three: Gender, Religions and the SDGs: A Reflection on Empowering Buddhist Nuns, Manuel Litalien
Part II: Genocidal Fractures: The Eternal Return of the Past, Laurie Kruk
Chapter Four: The Pilgrimage to Auschwitz: Making Meaning in Late in Modernity, Gillian McCann
Chapter Five: From Gas Chambers to 9/11: The Future of Postmemory and Contemporary America's Commodity Grief Culture, Pavlina Radia
Chapter Six: Art, Trauma, and History: A Survivor's Story, Aaron Weiss
Part III: Doctrines Revisited: Rewriting the Margins, Sarah Winters
Chapter Seven: The Shock Doctrine in Apocalyptic Fiction, Christine Bolus-Reichert
Chapter Eight: Guy Vanderhaeghe and the Fu
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