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Author:   Alison E. Vogelaar (Franklin University, Switzerland) ,  Brack W. Hale (Franklin University, Switzerland) ,  Alexandra Peat (Franklin University, Switzerland)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.442kg
ISBN:  

9781138217140

ISBN 10:   113821714
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   05 April 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Lists of figures List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: ‘Doc’ Collapse Chapter 1: Culture and collapse: Theses on catastrophic history for the 21st century Michael Egan Chapter 2: Are dead zones dead? Environmental collapse in popular media about eutrophication in sea-based systems. Jesse Peterson Chapter 3: Can photojournalism steer clear of the siren song of collapse? Joanna Nurmis Chapter 4: Environmental collapse in comics: Reflections on Philippe Squarzoni’s Saison brune Ann Gardiner Part II: ‘Pop’ Collapse Chapter 5: This is the end of the world as we know it: Narratives of collapse and transformation in archaeology and popular culture Guy D. Middleton Chapter 6: Survive, thrive, or perish: Environmental collapse in post-apocalyptic digital games Jennifer England Chapter 7: Zooming out, closing in: Ecology at the end of the frontier Alison E. Vogelaar and Brack Hale Part III: ‘Craft’ Collapse Chapter 8: Imagining the apocalypse: Valences of collapse in McCarthy, Burtynsky and Goldsworthy I. J. MacRae Chapter 9: ‘Something akin to what’s killing bees’: The poetry of colony collapse disorder Matthew Griffiths Chapter 10: Salvaging the fragments: Metaphors for collapse in Virginia Woolf and Station Eleven Alexandra Peat

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Alison E. Vogelaar is Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Franklin University Switzerland, and co-editor of Changing Representations of Nature and the City: The 1960s-1970s and their Legacies (with Gabriel Lee, Routledge 2018). Brack W. Hale is Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Science at Franklin University Switzerland, where he is co-director of the Center for Sustainability Initiatives. Alexandra Peat is Associate Professor of Literature at Franklin University Switzerland, and author of Travel and Modernist Literature: Sacred and Ethical Journeys (Routledge, 2011).

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