What Were We Thinking? A Climate Fiction Beginning and Ending, Told Inside and Outside and Backward and Forward
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21570523 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alison Neilson (0000-0002-6457-2804, NOVA University of Lisbon, corresponding author), Sevgi Aka (0000-0002-6568-3629, Istanbul Topkapi University), Dwight Owens (0000-0001-6258-2163, Ocean Networks Canada), Julia Jung (0000-0003-3388-6525, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus), Małgorzata Suś (International Water Management Institute) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 665-689 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Journal of Environmental Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0814-0626 • E-ISSN: 2049-775X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/aee.2025.10052 |
| OpenAlex | W4413724912 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
We resonated with the idea that dreaming is important, and that climate fiction is a way of dreaming with environmental educators. A well of resistance lives in art collaborations around the world which harness the power of the collective to face terrible realities and twist, bend, and dance them into alternative hopeful pasts, presents and futures. Engaging with other people and more-than-human lives, through creative collaborations have led us to understand complex and unfamiliar perspectives in ways that are unreachable alone, regardless of how much academic study we do. This story emerged from online meetings that crossed time zones and oceans: Vancouver to Istanbul. Our climate fiction surfaced from improvised, spontaneous story creation. It was as if the story was waiting for us to find her, if we acted with care and love while facing directly our own dark shadows and fears about climate catastrophe. This story of Cassandra, alongside our interpretations of its emergence, invites the reader to draw from any evoked confusion or other feelings as well as their own learnings to reflect on burdens of knowledge not acted upon. Leaning into confusion is a way to open up to the power of uncertainty for environmental education
Aesthetics · Art · Literature · Project commissioning · Publishing · Sociology · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Climate Change Communication and Perception · History · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |