Ecocritical Geopolitics

<p>What is the role of popular culture in shaping our discourse about the multifaceted system of material things, subjects and causal agents that we call "environment"?<i> Ecocritical Geopolitics</i> offers a new theoretical perspective and approach to the analysis of environmental discourse in popular culture. It combines ecocriticial and critical geopolitical approaches to explore three main themes: dystopian visions, the relationship between the human, post-human, and "nature" and speciesism and carnism. </p><p>The importance of popular culture in the construction of geopolitical discourse is widely recognized. From ecocriticism, we also appreciate that literature, cinema, or theatre can offer a mirror of what the individual author wants to communicate about the relationship between the human being and what can be defined as non-human. This book provides an analysis of environmental discourses with the theoretical tools of critical geopolitics and the analytical methodology of ecocriticism. It develops and disseminates a new scientific approach, defined as "ecocritical geopolitics", to offer an idea of the power of popular culture in the realization of environmental discourse. </p><p>Referencing sources as diverse as <em>The Road</em>, <em>The Shape of Water</em>, <em>Lady and the Tramp,</em> and TV cooking shows, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of geography, environmental studies, film studies, and environmental humanities.</p> <p><strong>Acknowledgments<em> </em>Introduction:</strong> <i>Why we need an "Ecocritical Geopolitics"</i><b> Part 1. Theoretical framework 1.1</b><i> Geo(-)graphy, Critical Geopolitics, Popular Geopolitics</i> <b>1.2</b><i> What kind of environmental discourse is that? </i><b>1.3 </b><i>Assembling the toolkit</i><b> Part 2. Landscapes and fears: discourse about the environment (and unavoidably also about race and gender) in dystopian texts and post-apocalyptic narratives</b><i> </i><b>2.1 </b><i>Re-visioning the future </i><b>2.2</b><i> Dystopian settings and (post)human landscapes </i><b>2.3 </b><i>Gulliver and beyond: gender, race and "environmental" clichés</i><b> Part 3. Posthuman worlds 3.1.</b><i> Post-human/Transhuman</i>/<i>Posthuman</i><b> 3.2 </b><i>Viewing dogs with (post)human lenses</i><b> 3.3 </b><i>Posthuman (dis)orders: monsters, hybrids, metamorphosis </i><b>Part 4. Reframing carnism 4.1. </b><i>Carnism in popular culture</i><b> 4.2</b><i> Engendering meat</i><b> 4.3</b><em>. Carnonormativity and its discontents </em><strong>Index</strong></p>