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| # Climate change Fiction and its Potential for Transformation | # Climate change Fiction and its Potential for Transformation | ||
| - | Climate change fiction has come to the fore in recent times as an offshoot of science/speculative fiction, as a way of coming to terms with the reality of global warming and climate change and the likely repercussions for vulnerable species and communities most likely to be affected in the near future. As extrapolations from current trends, such imaginative responses have offered a significant critique of techno-science and the dominant development paradigm and opened out conceptual alternatives and pathways to transformation. | + | {{ :events:2024_climate_change_fiction_webinars:climate_fiction_talks_main_page.jpg?nolink&300|}}Climate change fiction has come to the fore in recent times as an offshoot of science/speculative fiction, as a way of coming to terms with the reality of global warming and climate change and the likely repercussions for vulnerable species and communities most likely to be affected in the near future. As extrapolations from current trends, such imaginative responses have offered a significant critique of techno-science and the dominant development paradigm and opened out conceptual alternatives and pathways to transformation. |
| Kalpavriksh and Global Tapestry of Alternatives plan to host a series of dialogues and conversations on themes relating to South Asia in particular, seeking to find the interface between fiction, academia and activism. | Kalpavriksh and Global Tapestry of Alternatives plan to host a series of dialogues and conversations on themes relating to South Asia in particular, seeking to find the interface between fiction, academia and activism. | ||
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| 2. **[[.:02|Antecedents to climate change fiction: Utopian and speculative narratives from South Asia]]** | 2. **[[.:02|Antecedents to climate change fiction: Utopian and speculative narratives from South Asia]]** | ||
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| + | 3. **[[.:03|Marine ecosystems and climate fiction from South Asia]]** | ||
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| + | 4. **[[.:04|Climate Change Fiction: A Conversation with Amitav Ghosh]]** | ||