 These Overheating WorldsKendra Strauss Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2015, vol. 105, issue 2, 342-350 Abstract: In 2003 the British literary magazine Granta published an issue on climate change, “This Overheating World,” containing reportage and essays but almost no fiction—and the claim that our “failure of the imagination” regarding socioenvironmental change is both a political and a literary one. The decade since has seen a relative burgeoning of what has been dubbed “cli-fi,” dominated by apocalyptic and dystopian literary–geographical imaginations. In this article I ask this question: If these are our ways of imagining the future, what are the relationships among cultural imaginaries, theories, and politics of socioenvironmental change? Engaging the work of Frederic Jameson on utopia, and the novels of Margaret Atwood and Barbara Kingsolver, I argue that the flourishing interest in narrative, stories, and storytelling in human geography opens up opportunities for exploring political imaginaries of climate change through utopian and dystopian impulses present in its “fictionable worlds.” Date: 2015 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:raagxx:v:105:y:2015:i:2:p:342-350 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2014.973805 Access Statistics for this article Annals of the American Association of Geographers is currently edited by Jennifer Cassidento More articles in Annals of the American Association of Geographers from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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