Something Super-Wicked This Way Comes

Genre, Emergency, Expectation, and Learning to Die in Climate-Change Scotland

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ID20249095
AutoresDominic Hinde (Queen Margaret University, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume9
Fascículo1
Páginas17
Data de publicação2020-02-07
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHumanities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2076-0787 • E-ISSN: 2076-0787
EditoraMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/h9010017
OpenAlexW3005072823
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas36

This article approaches the issue of climate change and the response to it in Scotland from the perspective of genres of expectation and normality, focusing in particular on the relationship between genre, the political imagination, and calls for ‘climate realism’. Functioning partly as provocation and partly as a piece of critical theory on the problematic aspects of contemporary genres of expectation in Scotland, it discusses the push for normality as a driving force in the construction of imagined futures in the context of climate change, problematising how this fits with established expectations of the Scottish political imaginary and its futurity. Using the work of the scholar of genre and affect Lauren Berlant and her identification of genre as a means of ‘moving on’, it considers the idea of materially contingent narratives as an exit strategy from the present moment. To illustrate this, it briefly discusses Jenni Fagan’s contemporary climate change novel The Sunlight Pilgrims as an example of ‘irrealist’ confrontation of climate change and how this relates to the concept of the Anthropocene as an everyday experience. Ultimately, it concludes that contemporary attempts at climate realism require engagement with the irreal material circumstances of climate change and the fundamentally ‘super-wicked’ nature of climate processes in order to escape the constraints of progress, restoration, and normalisation as genre structures in discussion of climate futures

Aesthetics · Anthropocene · Archaeology · Art · Climate change · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Futures contract · Literature · Narrative · Normality · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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