
The Discourses of Environmental Collapse
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Bringing together a broad range of topics and authors, this volume will be of great interest to scholars of environmental communication and environmental humanities.
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Brack W. Hale is Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Science at Franklin University Switzerland, where he is co-director of the Center for Sustainability Initiatives.
Alexandra Peat is Associate Professor of Literature at Franklin University Switzerland, and author of Travel and Modernist Literature: Sacred and Ethical Journeys (Routledge, 2011).
Content
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
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