Wound-up worlds andThe Wind-up Girl
On the Anthropology of Climate Change and Climate Fiction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2187111 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C B Jensen (0000-0002-3216-9762, Osaka University of Human Sciences, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 186-200 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Tapuya Latin American Science Technology and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2572-9861 • E-ISSN: 2572-9861 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/25729861.2018.1485245 |
| OpenAlex | W2883316559 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 27 |
In recent years, climate fiction has exploded on the literary scene. Meanwhile, climate change is occurring in the Mekong river basin. In this paper, I put these phenomena into contact in an ontologically multi-sited ethnography of climate change and climate fiction. Rather than assuming a radical separation between real and fictive worlds, this entails a comparison that moves back and forth between the realms. On the one hand, as objects of ethnography, works of cli-fi can be examined in terms of the climate-changed worlds they construct and the responses generated within those worlds. On the other hand, as objects for ethnography, these worlds and responses can be laterally compared with different situations, like those found around the Mekong basin. Inhabiting a zone of indiscernibility between Mekong climate change and Paolo Bacigalupi's The Wind-up Girl, I suggest that lateral comparisons of climate change and climate fiction make it possible to broaden the imaginative spectrum of climate futures and to recover the "strange and adventurous task of believing in this world
Biology · Climate change · Girl · Sociology · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Psychology · Ecology
After nature
The Limits of Critique
Anthropocene Fictions
Experiments in Holism
Ethnography in/of the World System
Conservation and Development in Cambodia
An Assemblage of Thai Water Engineering
Friction
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Genetic Nature/Culture
A Strange Romance
The Habit of Lying
What Is Philosophy
Ethnography In/Of/As Open Systems1
The Politics of Scale, Position, and Place in the Governance of Water Resources in the Mekong Region
Networking the (Non) Human
For a Cosmopolitical Philology
Sail On! Sail On
Whitehead's Account of the Sixth Day
Attuning to the webs ofen
Less Than One But More Than Many
Mekong Scales
Two forms of the outside
The Ends of Humans
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |