Overview
Bringing together intersectional perspectives across disciplines such as the humanities, arts and social sciences, this book explores borders and crossings in relation to environmental damage and injustice in the context of the climate crisis. Focusing on historical and contemporary borders and barriers, both physical, ideological, and ontological, this book examines their crossings, transformations, expansions, and reconfigurations in the post-COVID era of climate crisis. It explores the power of nationalist ideas that promote borders and the ways activists and artists work to challenge and break them down, looking at case studies such as the partition line in Cyprus and right wing extremism. Focusing particularly on the way in which climate change literally alters the physical geography of borders, it looks at the representation of environmental crises, borders, barriers, and walls in literature, theatre, and other cultural and artistic expressions by writers as diverse as Franz Kafka, FastHorse, Rafeef Ziadah, and Claudia Rankine.
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Author: Dr Olga Michael (Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus, University of Cyprus, Cyprus) , Alan Rice , Ludmila Martanovschi (Ovidius University, Romania) , Katerina Antoniou (University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus.)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
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Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.60cm
Weight: 0.440kg
ISBN: 9781350499195
ISBN 10: 1350499196
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 11 December 2025
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Alan Rice, UCLan UK, Ludmila Martanovschi, Associate Professor of American studies, Ovidius University, RO, Katerina Antoniou, UCLan Cyprus, Olga Michael, University of Cyprus PART I: LITERARY AND POETIC FICTIONS ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS Chapter 1. Precarity and Planetarity: Anthropocene Literacy and the Task of Representation, Samir Dayal, Bentley University, USA Chapter 2. The Global Climate Crisis and Borders, Boundaries and Barriers in Flight Behavior and The Carhullan Armyd, Pirjo Ahokas, University of Turku, Finland Chapter 3. Walled cities, Ecocrisis, and Totalitarianism, Mark Frost, University of Portsmouth, UK Chapter 4. Caribbean Sexuality Orientated by Water, Elina Valovirta, University of Turku, Finland PART II: HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY BORDER=CROSSINGS Chapter 5. Cyprus at Large, William Boelhower, Louisiana State University, USA Chapter 6. Ekphrasis as Protest in the Poetry of Natasha Trethewey and Claudia Rankine, Malin Pereira, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Chapter 7. Border Crossing and Decolonial Being in Yuri Herrera's Signs Preceding the End of the World, Kolona Moutafidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece PART III: BUILDING, PERFORMING AND CONTESTING FIGURATIVE AND LITERAL WALLS Chapter 8. Performing Across Borders, Rafeef Ziadah’s Political /Poetical Activism, Hend Nasser, UCLan UK Chapter 9. Community Survivance in Indigenous Plays by FastHorse and Grasl, Cathy Waegner, University of Siegen, Germany Chapter 10. Parabolic Walls in the Work of Franz Kafka and Followers, Page Laws, Norfolk State University, USA Chapter 11. Protests and Resistance against Trump’s Wall and Right-Wing Extremism, Elisabeth Boulot,Université Gustave Eiffel, France Conclusion
Reviews
""This is not only a timely book but a valuable resource. It bridges several disciplines that have been trying to think through the changing geographical, political, existential, philosophical, and aesthetic questions surrounding borders at a time of climate emergency. That the book does so by paying attention to emergent literary genres, such as climate fiction, and established paradigms of border studies is noteworthy."" --Malcolm Sen, Associate Professor, Environmental Humanities, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
This is not only a timely book but a valuable resource. It bridges several disciplines that have been trying to think through the changing geographical, political, existential, philosophical, and aesthetic questions surrounding borders at a time of climate emergency. That the book does so by paying attention to emergent literary genres, such as climate fiction, and established paradigms of border studies is noteworthy. * Malcolm Sen, Associate Professor, Environmental Humanities, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA *
Author Information
Olga Michael is Adjunct Lecturer in Anglophone Literature at the University of Cyprus Alan Rice is Professor in English and American Studies at the University of Central Lancashire, UK Ludmila Martanovschi is Associate Professor in American Studies at Ovidius University, Romania Katerina Antoniou is Assistant Professor in Tourism and International Relations at UCLan Cyprus Jenny Webster is a Research Associate at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.
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