Reading and teaching fictions of climate

Bartosch, Roman

doi:10.4337/9781789900408.00050

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“…The reliance of these (and other) literacy concepts on individual agency and the ability to change or 'transform' simultaneously self, society, and climate is remarkable (see also Schneidewind 2013). To us, it seems a tall order indeed for individual learners, and one that potentially occludes the political dimension of an ecological transformation that calls for stronger stuff than sustainable consumer decisions (see Stengers 2015, 31;Ideland 2019;Bartosch 2020). Most importantly, by linking a fact-based understanding of climate and the normative dimensions of appropriate response and action, these suggestions painfully ignore the role and potential of imaginative thought as a key component of (climate change) literacy.…”

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“…It fosters necessary skills and abilities, such as discourse awareness and competence, lacking in other disciplines concerned with climate and crisis (cf. Küchler 2017, 153;Bartosch 2020). Moreover, it offers new and critical ways for empathy and engaging with complexity as 'reading is characterized by a swing back and forth between myself as reader and the textual other in a process of continuous identification and disidentification' (Myren-Svelstad 2020, 7).…”

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Climate Change Literacy

Hoydis

Bartosch

Gurr

2023

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This Element presents a necessary intervention within the rapidly expanding field of research in the environmental humanities on climate change and environmental literacy. In contrast to the dominant, science-centred literacy debates, which largely ignore the unique resources of the humanities, it asks: How does literary reading contribute to climate change communication? How does this contribution relate to recent demands for environmental and related literacies? Rather than reducing the function of literature to a more pleasurable form of information transfer or its affective dimension of evoking sympathy, climate change literacy thoroughly reassesses the cognitive, affective, and pedagogic potentials of literary writing. It does so by analysing a selection of popular climate novels and by demonstrating the role of fiction in fostering a more adequate understanding of, and response to, climate change. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%