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Review Of Cli-Fi And Class: Socioeconomic Justice In Contemporary American Climate Fiction, Kyhl Lyndgaard
Review Of Cli-Fi And Class: Socioeconomic Justice In Contemporary American Climate Fiction, Kyhl Lyndgaard
The Journal of Social Encounters
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Beyond Dystopia: The Effect Of Reading Hopeful Climate Fiction On Climate Anxiety And Environmental Self-Efficacy, Brandon Mcwilliams
Beyond Dystopia: The Effect Of Reading Hopeful Climate Fiction On Climate Anxiety And Environmental Self-Efficacy, Brandon Mcwilliams
WWU Graduate School Collection
Climate communication and climate storytelling have thus far been unrelentingly bleak. However, growing evidence suggests that the barrage of negative, technical communication may result in negative mental health impacts and doesn’t necessarily translate into climate action. Rather than continuing to focus on technical and fear-based communication, there are calls to shifts towards narrative communication and hopeful communication frames. In this study, I investigate what effect hopeful climate fiction has on readers through three related avenues of inquiry using the popular solarpunk novella A Psalm for the Wild Built as an experimental text. I examined (1) what effect, if any, the …