New book by LNUC Concurrences member Johan Höglund
Professor Johan Höglund's new OPEN ACCESS book The American Climate Emergency Narrative: Origins, Developments and Imaginary Futures was published by Palgrave Macmillan this summer.
The book describes how much of what has been called “climate fiction” casts ecological breakdown as an emergency for capitalist modernity and US hegemony, rather than for the planet. It traces this emergency narrative back in time to the early settlement of North America, a time when the understanding of the planet and its people as extractable resources was established. Since then, the book shows, this narrative has elided the long, extractive history of the climate crisis while at the same time leveraging the military as a primary bulwark against the crises capitalism has caused. The complete text can be downloaded here: The American Climate Emergency Narrative.