World Risk Society and Ecoglobalism

Risk, Literature, and the Anthropocene
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dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage494en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage509en_US
dc.contributor.authorMayer, Sylvia
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-30T10:04:31Z
dc.date.available2022-11-30T10:04:31Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractSince its institutionalization in the 1990s, ecocriticism has been defined as providing a critical response to ‘environmental crisis,’ thereby identifying the present as a transitional period characterized by a sense of threat and uncertainty. The field has only recently begun to fully engage with another concept that equally responds to environmental threat and uncertainty: the concept of risk. This chapter traces the emergence of risk research within ecocriticism, in particular in its focus on the challenges of global environmental risk. Drawing on sociologist Ulrich Beck’s model of the world risk society and on the concept of the Anthropocene, it shows how literary and cultural studies have begun to contribute to interdisciplinary risk studies by identifying the specific and indispensable contribution of fictional risk narratives to current environmental risk discourses.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/2723
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publishedInBerlinen_US
dc.publisherDeGruyteren_US
dc.relation.doi10.1515/9783110314595
dc.relation.editorZapf, Hubert
dc.relation.ispartofHandbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecologyen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesHandbooks of English and American Studies; 2
dc.rightsL::The Stacks Licenseen_US
dc.subject.ddcddc:800en_US
dc.subject.fieldamericanstudiesen_US
dc.subject.fieldenvironmentalstudiesen_US
dc.subject.fieldliterarystudiesen_US
dc.titleWorld Risk Society and Ecoglobalismen_US
dc.title.alternativeRisk, Literature, and the Anthropoceneen_US
dc.typeanthologyArticleen_US
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