Ecocritical Geopolitics: Popular Culture and Environmental Discourse
In: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I.1 Why We Need An "Ecocritical Geopolitics" -- I.1.1 From Katniss Everdeen to Greta Thunberg (and Back) -- I.1.2 Popular Culture and the "environment" -- I.1.3 Ecocritical Geopolitics -- I.1.4 Chapters Outline and Structure -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 1 Theoretical Framework -- 1 Geo(-)graphy, Critical Geopolitics, Popular Geopolitics -- 1.1 "geo-Graphy Is About Power" -- 1.2 Critical Geopolitics/popular Geopolitics -- 1.3 Ecocriticism -- Note -- Bibliography -- 2 What Kind of Environmental Discourse Is That? -- 2.1 Discourse About the Multifaceted System of Material Things, Subjects and Causal Agents That May Be Called "environment" -- 2.2 Anthropocentrism and Speciesism -- 2.3 Thinking Outside the Box -- 2.4 Conservation / Preservation -- 2.5 Challenging Anthropocentrism: Biocentrism, Ecocentrism, Deep Ecology -- 2.6 Ecofeminism and Posthumanism -- 2.7 Spatializing Ecofeminism / Posthumanizing Geo-Graphy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 Assembling the Toolkit -- 3.1 Making Ecocritical Geopolitics: Research Questions and Analytical Tools -- 3.2 Analysis of the Textual Content: Narrative Structure, Genre and Composition -- 3.3 Territory, Place, Landscape: Clarifying Some geographical Notions -- 3.4 Discourse Analysis -- 3.5 What About the Audience? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Landscapes and Fears -- 4 Re-Visioning the Future -- 4.1 Popular Culture and Landscapes of Fear -- 4.2 Dystopian Texts and Post-Apocalyptic Stories -- 4.3 Increasingly Successful Narratives -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 Dystopian Settings and (post)human Landscapes -- 5.1 Settings and Landscapes -- 5.2 Green Places: Dreaming of "nature" in Dystopian Settings -- 5.3 Dystopian Borderscapes -- 5.4 Wastelands: Capitalism, Consumerism, Garbage.