The American Climate Emergency Narrative: Origins, Developments and Imaginary Futures

Höglund, Johan

The American Climate Emergency Narrative reveals how much of what has been called "climate fiction" casts ecological breakdown as an emergency for American capitalist modernity rather than for the planet. The book traces the origins of this narrative back to the arrival of settler capitalism in America, when the understanding of the planet and its people as extractable resources was established. Since then, this narrative has elided the violent history of the climate crisis while at the same time leveraging the military as a bulwark against the crises capitalism has caused, the people it has uprooted, even the ailing planet itself.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2025-07-21

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783031606472

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-60645-8

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 214