From Apocalypse to Way of Life Four Decades of Environmental Crisis in the US

About this book

Decribes the growing number of ecological and social problems critical for the environment and their impact on American politics, society and culture.

Contents

Preface - the decade of crisis. Section I Contesting crisis: the politics of denial; taking crisis seriously? Section II Elaborating crisis - an introductory caution: natures in crisis part 1 - an inventory of the external world; natures in crisis part 2 - deepening intimacies; environmental crisis as social crisis; crisis history - from prophecy to risk, from apocalypse to dwelling place. Section III Imagining crisis: the culture of hyperexuberence; environmental crisis in popular fiction and film; taking crisis seriously - environmental crisis and contemporary literature.

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