Buch, Englisch, 140 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 319 g
Buch, Englisch, 140 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 319 g
ISBN: 978-0-367-62356-2
Verlag: Routledge
This book addresses the ways in which the Black Summer megafires influenced the development of climate narratives throughout 2020. It analyses the global pandemic, and its ensuing restrictions, as a countervailing force in the production of such narratives.
Lives and properties were lost in the spring and summer of 2019 and 2020, when catastrophic bushfires burnt through millions of hectares of mainland Australia. Nearly 3 billion native animals died. And for millions of Australians, and others worldwide, it was through the Australian megafires that the global climate emergency became tangible and concrete, no longer a comfortably deferred, albeit problematic abstraction which could be consigned to future generations to deal with. This book explores the legal and other implications of new understandings of climate emergency arising from the fires, and the emergence of a hierarchy of emergencies as the pandemic came to dominate global and domestic political discourses. It examines narratives of culpability, and legal avenues for seeking retribution from government and big fossil fuel emitters. It also considers the impact of the fires on the burgeoning phenomenon of climate activism, particularly in Australia, and the ways in which pandemic restrictions curtailed such activism. Finally, the book reflects on the fires through the lenses offered by climate fiction, and apocalyptic fiction more generally, in order to consider how these shape, and might shape, our responses to them.
This important and timely book will appeal to environmental lawyers and socio-legal theorists; as well as other scholars and activists with interests in climate change and its impact. It is recommended for anyone concerned about current and future climate disasters, and the shortcomings in legal, political and popular responses to the climate crisis.
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Fachgebiete
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Tier- und Umweltschutz
- Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Umweltrecht Umweltrecht allg., Technikrecht, Immissionsschutzrecht
- Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein
- Rechtswissenschaften Bürgerliches Recht Schuldrecht Schadensersatz, Schmerzensgeld
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
- Rechtswissenschaften Bürgerliches Recht Sachenrecht
- Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht
- Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Technologien für Fossile Energieträger
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Folgen von Katastrophen
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
- Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Naturgewalten & Katastrophen
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
Weitere Infos & Material
One: Black Summer, and All That Followed. Two: Narratives of Emergency. Three: Narratives of Culpability. Four: Narratives of Activism. Five: Narratives of Fire and Apocalypse.
