Climate change literacy / Julia Hoydis, Roman Bartosch, Jens Martin Gurr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoydis, Julia, author.

Bartosch, Roman, author.

Gurr, Jens Martin, 1974- author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in environmental humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental literacy.

Climatic changes in literature.

Physical Description:

71 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1009341995

9781009341998

OCLC:

1373931236

Publisher Number:

99994813368

Access Restriction:

Open access version available.