Writing Borders and Other Barriers in the Era of Climate Crisis
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 11 December 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350499195
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages248 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 bw illus 700
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Short description:
Bringing together intersectional perspectives across disciplines such as the humanities, arts and social sciences, this book explores borders and crossings in relation to environmental damage and injustice in the context of the climate crisis.
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Bringing together intersectional perspectives across disciplines such as the humanities, arts and social sciences, this book explores borders and crossings in relation to environmental damage and injustice in the context of the climate crisis.
Focusing on historical and contemporary borders and barriers, both physical, ideological, and ontological, this book examines their crossings, transformations, expansions, and reconfigurations in the post-COVID era of climate crisis. It explores the power of nationalist ideas that promote borders and the ways activists and artists work to challenge and break them down, looking at case studies such as the partition line in Cyprus and right wing extremism.
Focusing particularly on the way in which climate change literally alters the physical geography of borders, it looks at the representation of environmental crises, borders, barriers, and walls in literature, theatre, and other cultural and artistic expressions by writers as diverse as Franz Kafka, FastHorse, Rafeef Ziadah, and Claudia Rankine.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Writing and Reading Borders and Other Barriers in the Era of Climate Crisis: An Introduction Olga Michael (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Part I: Environmental and Other Crises: (Un)Doing the Human/Nature Divide
1. Precarity and Planetarity: Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide: A Plea for Anthropocene Literacy, Samir Dayal (Bentley University, Massachusetts, USA)
2. 'The Writing on the Wall': The Global Climate Crisis and Borders, Boundaries and Barriers in Flight Behavior and The Carhullan Army. Pirjo Ahokas (University of Turku, Finland)
3. Walled cities, ecocrisis, and totalitarianism: Yevgeny Zamyatin's We (1924) and J.J. Connington's Nordenholt's Million (1923). Mark Frost (University of Portsmouth, UK)
4. Mami Wata and the Tide Within: Caribbean Sexuality Orientated by Water. Elina Valovirta (University of Turku, Finland)
Part II: Empires Past and Present: Colonialism and Coloniality through the Centuries
5. Cyprus at Large: 'We Are Here Because You Were There'. William Boelhower (Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy)
6. 'Disobedient' Ekphrasis in the Poetry of Natasha Trethewey and Claudia Rankine. Malin Pereira (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
7. Uncanny Spectres: Border Crossing and Decolonial Being in Yuri Herrera's Signs Preceding the End of the World. Lona Moutafidou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Part III: Building, Performing and Contesting Figurative and Literal Walls
8. Performing Across Borders: Rafeef Ziadah's Political-Poetical Activism. Hend Nasser (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
9. Walls of water and snow in Vanishing Point and Lying with Badgers: Community survivance in Indigenous plays by FastHorse and Grasl. Cathy C. Waegner (Independent Scholar)
10. Parabolic Walls in Selected Works of Franz Kafka, J. M. Coetzee, and Nadine Gordimer. Page Laws (Norfolk State University in Virginia, USA)
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