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  • 标题:Repairing the Broken Earth: N.K. Jemisin on race and environment in transitions
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  • 作者:Alastair Iles
  • 期刊名称:Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene
  • 电子版ISSN:2325-1026
  • 出版年度:2019
  • 卷号:7
  • 期号:1
  • 页码:26-50
  • DOI:10.1525/elementa.364
  • 出版社:BioOne
  • 摘要:Sustainability transitions tend to be seen as technical, not social, affairs.Mainstream scholars and practitioners do not very often acknowledge environmental and social justice in their transitions work.They seldom recognize rights for racially marginalized people, or the possible existence of rights of Earth.Nor do they query whether they are exaggerating the reach of scientific and technological solutions.By contrast, some recent ecological science fiction writing has begun to place these issues at the center of transitions.In the Broken Earth series, N.K.Jemisin explores Earth through the lens of racial and ecological injustice.She interrogates four themes relevant to transitions.How should we live in a climate-changed world? What role does racial and social subordination play in destroying the environment? What are the dangers of hubris in seeking out a fundamental change through science and technology that cannot be readily controlled after all? How should we think about Earth itself? I conclude with some thoughts on how Earth could be made ‘unbroken’ again through integrating recognition, humility, renewal, and redistribution into transitions.
  • 关键词:Sustainability transitions;Science fiction;Ecological justice;Race;Climate change;Technology;
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