Heidi Toivonen
Biographic Data
| ID | 6703087 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heidi Toivonen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heidi |
| FAMILY NAME | Toivonen |
| SIGNATURE | TOIVONEN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Twente |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6554-2228 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
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Renegotiating Agency with Climate Fiction: Human Agency in Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior and Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation
The traditional definition of agency as a sense of rational control and power to cause changes in the “external” world seems poorly equipped to capture the potential of human agency in the times of climate crisis. Many scholars have placed a lot of faith in the genre of climate fiction -“cli-fi”- as a tool to inspire better ways for humans to interact with their environments. In this paper, I suggest a re-thinking of the notion of human agency em…
Uncertainty and the limits of narrative: An introduction
Uncertainty is not an easy word to unpack.Partial knowledge of the past or present can create uncertainty, but so can the inability to form a coherent image of the future.Cognitive scientist Andy Clark (2016) argues that our brains are prediction machines, and that they evolved to cope with (and even benefit from) the constant failure of our predictions-that is, the world's inherent uncertainty.In individual terms, uncertainty is part and parcel …
“Grump Mountain”: Viewers’ Attributions of Agency to a Climate Fiction Film
Environmental narratives—such as the genre of climate fiction—have been the topic of much theorization and discussion for their potential to enrich human ways of thinking about the nonhuman environment. In this paper, we discuss the responses of a small sample of participants who watched a short climate fiction narrative, the trailer to a documentary called Not Ok: A Little Movie about a Small Glacier at the End of the World. Using discourse anal…
Themes of climate change agency: A qualitative study on how people construct agency in relation to climate change
This study analyzes how people discursively construct their (non)agency—how they display abilities and capacities to act, or the lack thereof—vis-à-vis climate change. The paper presents the results of a detailed discursive and thematic analysis of 28 interview transcripts: 12 broad agency themes representing different ways of constructing human (non)agency in relation to climate change. The most common agency theme was Collective, followed by In…
Storytalk and complex constructions of nonhuman agency: An interview-based investigation
Recent work in environmental philosophy has uncoupled the notion of agency from the human domain, arguing that the efficacy of nonhuman entities and processes can also be construed as a form of “agency.” In this paper, we study discursive constructions of nonhuman agency as they appear in a set of interviews revolving around fictional narratives. The participants were asked to read microfiction engaging with the nonhuman perspectives of entities …
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Themes of climate change agency: A qualitative study on how people construct agency in relation to climate change
This study analyzes how people discursively construct their (non)agency—how they display abilities and capacities to act, or the lack thereof—vis-à-vis climate change. The paper presents the results of a detailed discursive and thematic analysis of 28 interview transcripts: 12 broad agency themes representing different ways of constructing human (non)agency in relation to climate change. The most common agency theme was Collective, followed by In…
Storytalk and complex constructions of nonhuman agency: An interview-based investigation
Recent work in environmental philosophy has uncoupled the notion of agency from the human domain, arguing that the efficacy of nonhuman entities and processes can also be construed as a form of “agency.” In this paper, we study discursive constructions of nonhuman agency as they appear in a set of interviews revolving around fictional narratives. The participants were asked to read microfiction engaging with the nonhuman perspectives of entities …
Renegotiating Agency with Climate Fiction: Human Agency in Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior and Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation
The traditional definition of agency as a sense of rational control and power to cause changes in the “external” world seems poorly equipped to capture the potential of human agency in the times of climate crisis. Many scholars have placed a lot of faith in the genre of climate fiction -“cli-fi”- as a tool to inspire better ways for humans to interact with their environments. In this paper, I suggest a re-thinking of the notion of human agency em…
Uncertainty and the limits of narrative: An introduction
Uncertainty is not an easy word to unpack.Partial knowledge of the past or present can create uncertainty, but so can the inability to form a coherent image of the future.Cognitive scientist Andy Clark (2016) argues that our brains are prediction machines, and that they evolved to cope with (and even benefit from) the constant failure of our predictions-that is, the world's inherent uncertainty.In individual terms, uncertainty is part and parcel …
“Grump Mountain”: Viewers’ Attributions of Agency to a Climate Fiction Film
Environmental narratives—such as the genre of climate fiction—have been the topic of much theorization and discussion for their potential to enrich human ways of thinking about the nonhuman environment. In this paper, we discuss the responses of a small sample of participants who watched a short climate fiction narrative, the trailer to a documentary called Not Ok: A Little Movie about a Small Glacier at the End of the World. Using discourse anal…
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Sociology (5 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Attribution (2 works) · Climate change (2 works) · Law (2 works)