2021 Re-imagining Climate Change, Justice and Inequality_Climate Narrative and the City
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Lectures by Distinguished International Scholars |
Re-imagining Climate Change, Justice and Inequality
(in English, Live-streaming)
Lecture 2 Meeting room ID: 184 295 4528 Password: 7600246 | |||
Date | Time | Speaker/Moderator | Title |
7/13 (Tue) | 10:00 ~ 11:30 | Ursula Heise UCLA/ Ji Eun Lee Sungkyunkwan University | Climate Narrative and the City |
Schedule | |||
10:00 ~ 10:05 Opening remark 10:05 ~ 10:55 Presentation 10:55 ~ 11:30 Discussion and questions |
<Overview>
Climate change, as Mike Hulme has emphasized, cannot be dissociated from the stories we tell about climate. This lecture will approach climate narratives through climate justice to ask how the concept of justice inflects stories about climate change. It will explore the role that justice plays in a series of nonfiction books about climate change that focus primarily on urban futures, such as Jeff Goodell’s The Water Will Come, Ashley Dawson’s Extreme Cities, and David Wallace-Wells’ The Uninhabitable Earth, so as to highlight recurring story templates and their implications for arguments about justice. These narratives, like a great deal of cli-fi, rely on the age-old trope of the drowning city as a symbol for the passing of civilizations. But some recent narrative works, such as Nguyễn-Võ Nghiêm-Minh's film Nước 2030 (Water 2030, 2014) and Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 (2017), reenvision the drowning city so as to offer new stories about inequality and justice.
<Ursula Heise>
Ursula Heise a professor at UCLA who teaches in the Department of English and at the Institute of the
Environment and Sustainability. Her research and teaching focus on contemporary literature;
environmental culture in the Americas, Western Europe and Japan; narrative theory; media theory;
literature and science; and science fiction. Her books include Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative, and
Postmodernism (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The
Environmental Imagination of the Global (Oxford University Press, 2008), Nach der Natur: Das
Artensterben und die moderne Kultur (After Nature: Species Extinction and Modern Culture, Suhrkamp,
2010), and Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species (University of Chicago
Press, 2016).
Heise is the Managing Editor of Futures of Comparative Literature: The ACLA Report on the State of the
Discipline (Routledge, 2016), and co-editor, with Jon Christensen and Michelle Niemann, of The
Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities (2016). She is editor of the bookseries,
Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment with Palgrave-Macmillan and co-editor of the series
Literature and Contemporary Thought with Routledge. She is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow and served as
President of ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment) in 2011.
Detailed information about her publications, upcoming lectures, and courses can be found on her
website: http://www.uheise.net.