Ecocritical Geopolitics: Popular Culture and Environmental Discourse

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Cover Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction I.1 Why We Need An “Ecocritical Geopolitics” I.1.1 From Katniss Everdeen to Greta Thunberg (and Back) I.1.2 Popular Culture and the “environment” I.1.3 Ecocritical Geopolitics I.1.4 Chapters Outline and Structure Notes Bibliography 1 Theoretical Framework 1 Geo(-)graphy, Critical Geopolitics, Popular Geopolitics 1.1 “geo-Graphy Is About Power” 1.2 Critical Geopolitics/popular Geopolitics 1.3 Ecocriticism Note Bibliography 2 What Kind of Environmental Discourse Is That? 2.1 Discourse About the Multifaceted System of Material Things, Subjects and Causal Agents That May Be Called “environment” 2.2 Anthropocentrism and Speciesism 2.3 Thinking Outside the Box 2.4 Conservation / Preservation 2.5 Challenging Anthropocentrism: Biocentrism, Ecocentrism, Deep Ecology 2.6 Ecofeminism and Posthumanism 2.7 Spatializing Ecofeminism / Posthumanizing Geo-Graphy Notes Bibliography 3 Assembling the Toolkit 3.1 Making Ecocritical Geopolitics: Research Questions and Analytical Tools 3.2 Analysis of the Textual Content: Narrative Structure, Genre and Composition 3.3 Territory, Place, Landscape: Clarifying Some geographical Notions 3.4 Discourse Analysis 3.5 What About the Audience? Notes Bibliography 2 Landscapes and Fears 4 Re-Visioning the Future 4.1 Popular Culture and Landscapes of Fear 4.2 Dystopian Texts and Post-Apocalyptic Stories 4.3 Increasingly Successful Narratives Notes Bibliography 5 Dystopian Settings and (post)human Landscapes 5.1 Settings and Landscapes 5.2 Green Places: Dreaming of “nature” in Dystopian Settings 5.3 Dystopian Borderscapes 5.4 Wastelands: Capitalism, Consumerism, Garbage 5.5 Post-Human Landscapes in Biocentric/Ecocentric Perspectives: The Last Man and Earth Abides 5.6 The Drowned World and the Landscape As main Character 5.7 The Road and the Landscape As a Corpse Notes Bibliography 6 Gulliver and Beyond: Gender, Race and “environmental” Clichés 6.1 The “heroic Male Agent”: White, Male, Young, Heterosexual, and Non-Disabled 6.2 What About the Girls? 6.3 Indigenous and Settlers: “invasion Fiction” and the Apocalypse As Historical Experience Notes Bibliography 3 Posthuman Worlds 7 Post-Human/transhuman/posthuman 7.1 (post)human Wor(l)ds? 7.2 The Time Machine and the Post-Sapiens Future 7.3 Transmogrifying Epidemics and New World Orders 7.4 Improving Humanity? The (anti)utopian Dream of Perfection 7.5 “i’m Not Machine, Not Man. I’m More”: Terminator and the Other Transhumans Bibliography 8 Viewing Dogs With (post)human Lenses 8.1 “dogs Are My Story Here, But They Are Only One Player in the Large World of Companion Species” (haraway 2003, 25) 8.2 Dogs On the Leash: “the Law of the Stronger Over the Weaker” 8.3 Tray and Trixy: Vivisection and the Antivivisectionist Debate 8.4 “like a Lady’s Ringlets Brown”: Exploring the Dog’s Umwelt in Flush 8.5 “friends in a Friendship Closer Than Brotherhood”: Ouida and A Dog of Flanders in Posthuman Perspective 8.6 “jara Is My Friend”: Antispeciesism (and Environmental Justice) in Animal’s People Notes Bibliography 9 Posthuman (dis)orders: Monsters, Hybrids, Metamorphosis 9.1 Fantastic Beasts, Monsters and Non-“normate” bodies, From Homer to Harry Potter 9.2 Body Order Versus Extra-Ordinary Bodies: The Dolphin People and The Shape of Water 9.3 Between Human and Animal: Truismes Notes Bibliography 4 Reframing Carnism 10 Carnism in Popular Culture 10.1 Introducing “carnism” 10.2 The “meat Paradox” and Beyond: How the Hegemonic Dietary Discourse of Carnism Is Produced and Reproduced by Advertising 10.3 “let’s Have a Hot Dog”: Meat Eaters (and Veg*ns) in Popular Culture Bibliography 11 Engendering Meat 11.1 Meat, Myths, Masculinity 11.2 Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche: Gender Stereotypes and dietary Habits in the Media 11.3 The “cow” and the “boy” Along the Trails of the West(ern) 11.4 Mastering Carnonormativity: Television Cooking Shows and Reality Formats Notes Bibliography 12 Carnonormativity and Its Discontents 12.1 Cracking Carnonormativity 12.2 The Jungle and More: Investigative Journalism and the Power of the “cognitive Trio” 12.3 Consider the Animals: Empathy and the Role of Literature 12.4 “how Can You watch That Stuff?”… “i Don’t Know…how Can You Eat It?” 12.5 Back to the Visual Notes Bibliography Index