Firing the climate canon: a literary critique of the genre of climate change

This article makes the case for more climate change, where climate change refers to the prevailing ideologies and frameworks that inform our understanding of environmental change in the first place. It reviews the mainstream literature in popular science writing, fiction and poetry from the point of view of a political frame analysis of climate change, to demonstrate how a certain understanding of climate change maps onto conventions of literary genre. This understanding, and associated literature, are critiqued on the basis of their continued attachment to dualistic and teleological narratives of human mastery and progress, such as to make the case for a literature which offers something radically other. The current political context, not least Donald Trump’s victory and Brexit, are cited as evidence of the contemporary importance of alternatives to the establishment approach to climate mitigation than either denial or scepticism – in both literature, and more broadly

Contributions to pure and applied mineralogy / E.R. Segnit

1 v.Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library.Thesis -- University of Adelaide, 198

Barium feldspars from Broken Hill, N.S.W.

Thesis (M.Sc) -- University of Adelaide, Dept. of Earth Sciences, 194