Description
Channeling the creative potential of humanity to transition towards joyous and just futures in times of life-threatening climate change, this book uses metaphors of magic and shapeshifting to imagine liveable futures achievable through other-than-rational means.
Focusing on a wide range of 20th and 21st-century novels from a diverse range of writers such as Madeline Miller, Jeff VanderMeer, Ursula LeGuin, N.K. Jemisin, Ambelin Kwaymullina and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, it suggests that readers take seriously the pedagogical potential of magic in literature for the classroom and beyond while providing them with contextualized, collective methods of climate action.
Channeling the creative potential of humanity to transition towards joyous and just futures in times of life-threatening climate change, this book uses metaphors of magic and shapeshifting to imagine livable futures achievable through other-than-rational means.
About the Author
Sofia Ahlberg is Vice Dean at the Faculty of Languages at Uppsala University, Sweden.
Book Information
ISBN 9781350401181
Author Sofia Ahlberg
Format Paperback
Page Count 168
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Series Environmental Cultures