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Globalization and Postmodern Ecology: A Study of the Anthropocene in Contemporary Climate Fictions
Corresponding Author(s) : G. Lakshmi Narasimham
Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews,
Vol. 10 No. 1 (2022): January
Abstract
Purpose of the study: Globalization has become a primary source for implementing capitalistic life. The advancement in human development has led to the Anthropocene. This paper focuses on how globalization impacts global climate change and the loss of identity and home due to humans' exploratory attitude toward the environment and its effect on surroundings. Issues in the study are addressed from a postmodern ecological perspective.
Methodology: The researcher has taken ecocriticism as the analyzing theory to expose the ideology of anthropocentrism, which keeps humans at the centre of the earth and nature at its periphery. Apocalypticism is chosen theoretical tool of ecocritical analysis. Environmental ethics and justice is used to analyze ecocentric issues. Intertextuality and comparative study of novels are taken as the primary methods.
Main Findings: Globalization is responsible for urban areas' rapid development, and anthropocentric variants are responsible for ecological disasters or climate change. This study demonstrates that human beings' perception of nature as a commodity/object to satisfy humans' unlimited desire has endangered nature. It is time to critically question the human interference in nature and create hope for rebuilding a new ecocentric mindset.
The Application of the study: Eco literature deals with ecocentric issues through literary genres. The present paper studies the human-nature relationship and analysis how contemporary ecocentric novels deconstruct the culture-nature binary and anthropocentric hegemony. Hence, it is interdisciplinary. The above concerns are addressed from the perspective of climate fiction- The Hungry Tide and MaddAddam. The study's findings are not just restricted to the academic domain; instead, it appeals to all humans to change their notion of nature and aim for a sustainable environment.
Novelty/Originality: In general, environmental and ecological studies scholars have resolved the ecocentric issue. In contrast to the above, the issue has been discussed from the lens of eco literature. Besides theorizing this academic discourse, the everyday human-nonhuman relationship is also portrayed through climate fiction.
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- Admin, A. (2015). Against the Waves of Globalization in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide. Asian American Theological Forum, 7(2). https://aatfweb.org/2015/05/25/against-the-waves-of-globalization-in-amitav-ghoshs-the-hungry-tide
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- Atwood, M. (2013). Maddaddam. Canada: McClelland & Stewart.
- Beckett, S. (1957). Endgame. Faber & Faber.
- Carson, R. (1962). Silent Spring. Penguin.
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Admin, A. (2015). Against the Waves of Globalization in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide. Asian American Theological Forum, 7(2). https://aatfweb.org/2015/05/25/against-the-waves-of-globalization-in-amitav-ghoshs-the-hungry-tide
Adorno, T. W. (2010). Notes on Beckett. Journal of Beckett Studies, 19(2), 157–178. https://doi.org/10.3 366/jobs.2010.0002 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/jobs.2010.0002
Atwood, M. (2003). Oryx and Crake. Bloomsbury (UK).
Atwood, M. (2010). The Year of the Flood. Cannada: McClelland & Stewart.
Atwood, M. (2013). Maddaddam. Canada: McClelland & Stewart.
Beckett, S. (1957). Endgame. Faber & Faber.
Carson, R. (1962). Silent Spring. Penguin.
Chakraborty, S. (2015). Environment, Globalization and Culture. Philosophy and Progress, 1-2(2015), 105-118. https://doi.org/10.3329/pp.v57i1-2.31207 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3329/pp.v57i1-2.31207
Ghosh, A. (2004). The Hungry Tide. Penguin Canada.
Ghosh, A. (2016). The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. Penguin. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226323176.001.0001 DOI: https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226323176.001.0001
Kane, M. (2020). The Postmodern Time and Space in Fiction and Theory. Dublin, Ireland: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37449-5 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37449-5
Newell, P. (2019). Global Green Politics. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108767224 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108767224
T.N. Godavarman Thirumulpad vs Union Of India & Or, 1433 and 1477 (Supreme Court of India February 13, 2012). https://indiankanoon.org/doc/187293069
Rosso Grossman, M. (2018). Climate Change and the Individual. The American Journal of Comparative Law, 66, 345-378. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avy018 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avy018
Rousseau, J.-J. (2016). A Discourse on Inequality. Open Road Media.
Schmeink, L. (2016). The Anthropocene, the Posthuman, and the Animal. In Biopunk Dystopias. Liverpool University Press. https://doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781781383766.003.0003 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781781383766.003.0003
Sklair, L. (2020). Globalization and the Challenge of the Anthropocene. In Challenges of Globalization and Prospects of an Inter-Civilization World Order (pp.77-87). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44058-9_5 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44058-9_5
Wapner, P., & Matthew, R. A. (2009). The Humanity of Global Environment Ethics. The Journal of Environmental & Development, 2, 203-222. https://doi.org/10.1177/1070496509334693 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1070496509334693
Wilson-Scott, J. (2021, Feb 12). Accommodating the Anthropocene: the home as a site of ecological significance in climate fiction. Green Letters, 1, 7-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2021.1886968 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2021.1886968