Multimedia | book excerpt
Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World
Excerpt from RCC fellow Jemma Deer’s monograph Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World.
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Multimedia | journal article
“‘We are the Dispossessed’: Displacement, Knowledge Production and Bare Life in West Bengali Climate Fiction”
An analysis of the book Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh.
Exhibition chapter
About This Exhibition | Ghosh in Munich
Introductory notes on the virtual exhibition Amitav Ghosh in Munich.
Multimedia | journal article
“Climate Blues: or How Awareness of the Human End Might Re-Instil Ethical Purpose to the Writing of History”
What does the possibility of an early end to human existence as part of a more general biotic extinction mean for the latter day writing of history?
Multimedia | film profile
Wätterschmöcker [Weather Gazers]
This film follows the daily lives of seven “weather prophets” in the Swiss Muota Valley, who predict weather six months in advance based on evidence from animals and plants.
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Fire and Snow: Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones
Full text of the book Fire and Snow: Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones.
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State of the World 2014: Governing for Sustainability
The 2014 edition, marking the Institute’s fortieth anniversary, examines both barriers to responsible political and economic governance as well as gridlock-shattering new ideas.
Perspectives
Sites of Remembering: Landscapes, Lessons, Policies
This volume explores the potential contribution memory studies can make to policymaking, in particular on conservation and disaster resilience.
Exhibition chapter
Making the Origin of Water and the Cleanest Waters on the Planet Visible | From Hand Lenses to Telescopes
Fourth chapter of Ricardo Rozzi et al.’s virtual exhibition, From Hand Lenses to Telescopes: Exploring the Microcosm and Macrocosm in Chile’s Biocultural Laboratories.
Exhibition chapter
A Few Hazy Anthropocenes | Ghosh in Munich
Tathagat Bhatia’s “A Few Hazy Anthropocenes” is a skilfully controlled reflection on haze as both a form of air pollution and a metaphor for the uncertainty of our times. It was one of the two honorable mentions in the nonfiction category of the RCC environmental writing competition “Tell the Untold!”