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      Ecocritical Geopolitics
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      Ecocritical Geopolitics

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      Popular Culture and Environmental Discourse

      Ecocritical Geopolitics

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      Ecocritical Geopolitics book

      Popular Culture and Environmental Discourse
      ByElena dell’Agnese
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2021
      eBook Published 27 May 2021
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429293504
      Pages 228
      eBook ISBN 9780429293504
      Subjects Environment and Sustainability, Geography, Humanities, Language & Literature, Politics & International Relations
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      dell’Agnese, E. (2021). Ecocritical Geopolitics: Popular Culture and Environmental Discourse (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429293504

      ABSTRACT

      What is the role of popular culture in shaping our discourse about the multifaceted system of material things, subjects and causal agents that we call "environment"? Ecocritical Geopolitics offers a new theoretical perspective and approach to the analysis of environmental discourse in popular culture. It combines ecocriticial and critical geopolitical approaches to explore three main themes: dystopian visions, the relationship between the human, post-human, and "nature" and speciesism and carnism.

      The importance of popular culture in the construction of geopolitical discourse is widely recognized. From ecocriticism, we also appreciate that literature, cinema, or theatre can offer a mirror of what the individual author wants to communicate about the relationship between the human being and what can be defined as non-human. This book provides an analysis of environmental discourses with the theoretical tools of critical geopolitics and the analytical methodology of ecocriticism. It develops and disseminates a new scientific approach, defined as "ecocritical geopolitics", to offer an idea of the power of popular culture in the realization of environmental discourse.

      Referencing sources as diverse as The Road, The Shape of Water, Lady and the Tramp, and TV cooking shows, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of geography, environmental studies, film studies, and environmental humanities.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |16 pages

      Introduction

      part 1|50 pages

      Theoretical framework

      chapter 1|10 pages

      Geo(-)graphy, critical geopolitics, popular geopolitics

      chapter 2|24 pages

      What kind of environmental discourse is that?

      chapter 3|14 pages

      Assembling the toolkit

      part 2|42 pages

      Landscapes and fears

      chapter 4|9 pages

      Re-visioning the future

      chapter 5|19 pages

      Dystopian settings and (post)human landscapes

      chapter 6|12 pages

      Gulliver and beyond

      Gender, race and “environmental” clichés

      part 3|54 pages

      Posthuman worlds

      chapter 7|15 pages

      Post-human/transhuman/posthuman

      chapter 8|26 pages

      Viewing dogs with (post)human lenses

      chapter 9|11 pages

      Posthuman (dis)orders

      Monsters, hybrids, metamorphosis

      part 4|46 pages

      Reframing carnism

      chapter 10|13 pages

      Carnism in popular culture

      chapter 11|12 pages

      Engendering meat

      chapter 12|19 pages

      Carnonormativity and its discontents

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