Johns-Putra’s text acts as an introduction to a series of essays in an academic journal, providing a taste for its following texts – on ecocriticism and critical theory’s place in a climate changing world. The text begins with a brief outline on climate change discourse. It’s a concept we know about, with general scientific and […]

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Clark, T 2015, ‘Chapter One: The Anthropocene- Questions of Definition’, in Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept, Bloomsbury Publishing, London & New York, pp. 1-28. Clark acknowledges the complexity of the term Anthropocene. He uses various works by other academics and ecocritics to highlight the concept’s intricacies and its various appointed […]

I found this prompt really challenging, mainly because of the vast scope of possibilities. I wanted to acknowledge the uncertainty we’re living in today while also highlighting my thoughts on media making in a climate changing world. I decided it was best to explore my relationship with the climate in terms of grief and my […]

It’s getting increasingly difficult to put my thoughts into coherent sentences as I learn more about climate change (+ communications) in this chaotic environment. I think of Jem Bendell’s text and how eerily it relates to the current COVID-19 situation. Sure, it’s not societal collapse in the face of climate change specifically, but I can’t […]