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Articoli. Cambiamento climatico e geografia

N. 2 (2022)

La Climate Fiction secondo l’Ecocritical Geopolitics: un’agenda per la ricerca

  • Elena dell’Agnese
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3280/rgioa2-2022oa13805
Inviata
11 maggio 2022
Pubblicato
30-05-2022

Abstract

L’idea che un cataclisma climatico possa alterare in maniera profonda gli equilibri del pianeta è presente nella fantascienza sin dalla fine dell’Ottocento. Le narrazioni incentrate sulle conseguenze potenzialmente catastrofiche di un cambiamento climatico, tuttavia,
nei primi due decenni del Duemila si sono letteralmente moltiplicate, tanto che si parla di Climate Fiction. Al di là del monito ambientalista inserito in queste narrazioni, un ulteriore livello di analisi può essere individuato nell’esame del discorso da esse veicolato, in relazione ai rapporti di potere tra esseri umani e tra esseri umani e ambiente. In questo articolo, dopo una breve introduzione all’approccio teorico individuato come utile a tal fine (l’Ecocritical Geopolitics), verrà articolata un’agenda di ricerca, con l’identificazione dei campi di indagine da aprire per esplorare la Climate Fiction, in riferimento ai suoi riferimenti spaziali, ai suoi principali protagonisti e al suo discorso sull’ambiente.

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