Ecocritical Geopolitics: Popular Culture and Environmental Discourse

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Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	I.1 Why We Need An “Ecocritical Geopolitics”
		I.1.1 From Katniss Everdeen to Greta Thunberg (and Back)
		I.1.2 Popular Culture and the “environment”
		I.1.3 Ecocritical Geopolitics
		I.1.4 Chapters Outline and Structure
	Notes
	Bibliography
1 Theoretical Framework
	1 Geo(-)graphy, Critical Geopolitics, Popular Geopolitics
		1.1 “geo-Graphy Is About Power”
		1.2 Critical Geopolitics/popular Geopolitics
		1.3 Ecocriticism
		Note
		Bibliography
	2 What Kind of Environmental Discourse Is That?
		2.1 Discourse About the Multifaceted System of Material Things, Subjects and Causal Agents That May Be Called “environment”
		2.2 Anthropocentrism and Speciesism
		2.3 Thinking Outside the Box
		2.4 Conservation / Preservation
		2.5 Challenging Anthropocentrism: Biocentrism, Ecocentrism, Deep Ecology
		2.6 Ecofeminism and Posthumanism
		2.7 Spatializing Ecofeminism / Posthumanizing Geo-Graphy
		Notes
		Bibliography
	3 Assembling the Toolkit
		3.1 Making Ecocritical Geopolitics: Research Questions and Analytical Tools
		3.2 Analysis of the Textual Content: Narrative Structure, Genre and Composition
		3.3 Territory, Place, Landscape: Clarifying Some geographical Notions
		3.4 Discourse Analysis
		3.5 What About the Audience?
		Notes
		Bibliography
2 Landscapes and Fears
	4 Re-Visioning the Future
		4.1 Popular Culture and Landscapes of Fear
		4.2 Dystopian Texts and Post-Apocalyptic Stories
		4.3 Increasingly Successful Narratives
		Notes
		Bibliography
	5 Dystopian Settings and (post)human Landscapes
		5.1 Settings and Landscapes
		5.2 Green Places: Dreaming of “nature” in Dystopian Settings
		5.3 Dystopian Borderscapes
		5.4 Wastelands: Capitalism, Consumerism, Garbage
		5.5 Post-Human Landscapes in Biocentric/Ecocentric Perspectives: The Last Man and Earth Abides
		5.6 The Drowned World and the Landscape As main Character
		5.7 The Road and the Landscape As a Corpse
		Notes
		Bibliography
	6 Gulliver and Beyond: Gender, Race and “environmental” Clichés
		6.1 The “heroic Male Agent”: White, Male, Young, Heterosexual, and Non-Disabled
		6.2 What About the Girls?
		6.3 Indigenous and Settlers: “invasion Fiction” and the Apocalypse As Historical Experience
		Notes
		Bibliography
3 Posthuman Worlds
	7 Post-Human/transhuman/posthuman
		7.1 (post)human Wor(l)ds?
		7.2 The Time Machine and the Post-Sapiens Future
		7.3 Transmogrifying Epidemics and New World Orders
		7.4 Improving Humanity? The (anti)utopian Dream of Perfection
		7.5 “i’m Not Machine, Not Man. I’m More”: Terminator and the Other Transhumans
		Bibliography
	8 Viewing Dogs With (post)human Lenses
		8.1 “dogs Are My Story Here, But They Are Only One Player in the Large World of Companion Species” (haraway 2003, 25)
		8.2 Dogs On the Leash: “the Law of the Stronger Over the Weaker”
		8.3 Tray and Trixy: Vivisection and the Antivivisectionist Debate
		8.4 “like a Lady’s Ringlets Brown”: Exploring the Dog’s Umwelt in Flush
		8.5 “friends in a Friendship Closer Than Brotherhood”: Ouida and A Dog of Flanders in Posthuman Perspective
		8.6 “jara Is My Friend”: Antispeciesism (and Environmental Justice) in Animal’s People
		Notes
		Bibliography
	9 Posthuman (dis)orders: Monsters, Hybrids, Metamorphosis
		9.1 Fantastic Beasts, Monsters and Non-“normate” bodies, From Homer to Harry Potter
		9.2 Body Order Versus Extra-Ordinary Bodies: The Dolphin People and The Shape of Water
		9.3 Between Human and Animal: Truismes
		Notes
		Bibliography
4 Reframing Carnism
	10 Carnism in Popular Culture
		10.1 Introducing “carnism”
		10.2 The “meat Paradox” and Beyond: How the Hegemonic Dietary Discourse of Carnism Is Produced and Reproduced by Advertising
		10.3 “let’s Have a Hot Dog”: Meat Eaters (and Veg*ns) in Popular Culture
		Bibliography
	11 Engendering Meat
		11.1 Meat, Myths, Masculinity
		11.2 Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche: Gender Stereotypes and dietary Habits in the Media
		11.3 The “cow” and the “boy” Along the Trails of the West(ern)
		11.4 Mastering Carnonormativity: Television Cooking Shows and Reality Formats
		Notes
		Bibliography
	12 Carnonormativity and Its Discontents
		12.1 Cracking Carnonormativity
		12.2 The Jungle and More: Investigative Journalism and the Power of the “cognitive Trio”
		12.3 Consider the Animals: Empathy and the Role of Literature
		12.4 “how Can You watch That Stuff?”… “i Don’t Know…how Can You Eat It?”
		12.5 Back to the Visual
		Notes
		Bibliography
Index