Climate change is profoundly disturbing Earth systems but, as Amitav Ghosh puts it, 鈥渢he climate crisis is also a crisis of culture, and thus of the imagination.鈥� In this context, what is storytelling? And does it have a role to play in responding to the climate crisis? If so, what role?
Speakers:
- Nadia Bozak and Barbara Leckie are professors at 杏吧原创 in the Department of English.
- Nadia鈥檚 work focuses on climate change and how narrative and visual art are informed by extraction of raw resources and patterns of consumption.
- Barbara is Founder of the 杏吧原创 Climate Commons and the Academic Director of Re.Climate. Her work is centred on climate change and the humanities.
Actions
- As a reader, passionately engage in the works you read and practice critically thinking听听
- Chose what you read wisely听听
- Flex your imagination muscles, imagine what your ideal day to day life would be like. What are some little steps you can do to make your ideal?听听
- If you aren鈥檛 a reader, try to engage with video or audio formats听
- Create or join a book club! It鈥檚 a fantastic setting to have deep discussions on what you鈥檝e read or heard听
- If you like a book or want access to a book, recommend to your nearby library to include it in their stock! Most likely they will say yes.听听
- After you read/consume something, try to discuss it with a friend or family member to reflect on what you鈥檝e learned and pass on information听听
Resource List
The following is a list of resources recommended by attendees at our event.
Climate-related fiction books:听
- Vandana Singh books听
- “Indra’s Web” from Ambiguity Machines听
- Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer听听
- Dune series by Frank Herbert听听
- Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanely Robinson
Non-fiction Climate storytelling:
- On Time and Water by Andre Snaer Magnuso听
- The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh
Non-fiction books on story-telling, not all are climate related:
- Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis by George Monbiot听
- Not Too Late by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young-Lutunatabua听听
- 听听
- Dear Science and Other Stories by Katherine McKittrick听听听
- Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative by Peter Brooks听听
- Radical Hope by Johnathan Lear听
Articles and websites:听
- Climate Disaster Project, stories from people affected by climate change听
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Passionate Immersion in research or reading:
- Van Dooren, Thom, Eben Kirksey, and Ursula M眉nster, 鈥楳ultispecies Studies: Cultivating Arts of Attentiveness鈥�, Environmental Humanities, 8.1 (2016), 1鈥�23 <>听