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  1. Fake News in Contemporary Science and Politics
    A Requiem for the Real?
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham

    Zusammenfassung: This transdisciplinary book investigates the profound repercussions of living in a post-truth world in which “alternative facts” and post-truth knowledge claims, often bordering on the absurd, have replaced the real in the collective... more

     

    Zusammenfassung: This transdisciplinary book investigates the profound repercussions of living in a post-truth world in which “alternative facts” and post-truth knowledge claims, often bordering on the absurd, have replaced the real in the collective imagination of millions of people around the planet. Through discussions on climate change denial, the anti-vaccination movement, the January 6th Insurrection and the Russia-Ukraine War, this study explores the gravity of the current 'infodemic,' or the increasing inability of a large segment of the population to distinguish between reality and misrepresentation, and the destabilizing impact this infodemic has on democratic models of governance around the globe, coinciding with the rise of autocratic forms of populism. Keith Moser is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Mississippi State University. He has more than one-hundred major publications including nine books and eighty-five articles. Moser’s research examines many issues linked to social-ecological justice, including Environmental Ethics (Environmental Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Ecocriticism, Ecolinguistics, and Biosemiotics) and postmodern French thought as it relates to literature, Popular Culture, and society in general

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783031561801
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2024
    Other subjects: (lcsh)Ecocriticism.; (lcsh)Communication in the environmental sciences.; (lcsh)Medicine and the humanities.; (lcsh)Political science.; Ecocriticism.; Environmental Communication.; Medical Humanities.; Governance and Government.
    Scope: Online-Ressource, Approx. 180 p., online resource.
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    1. Introduction -- 2. Climate Change Denial: An Ecocidal, Parallel Universe of Simulation -- 3. COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: The Ongoing, Hyperreal Saga of a Deadly Epidemic and Infodemic -- 4. Alternative Facts Trump Reality: The Spectacular Anatomy of an Insurrection -- 5. The Baudrillardian “Discourse of the Good:” Putin’s False Flag Operation to Denazify Ukraine -- 6. Conclusions.

  2. Environment and Narrative in Vietnam
    Contributor: Heise, Ursula K. (Herausgeber); Pham, Chi P. (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham

    Zusammenfassung: Environment and Narrative in Vietnam brings together essays about Vietnam’s natural environments and environmental crises from the perspective of culture, with particular attention to narrative templates that have shaped perceptions... more

     

    Zusammenfassung: Environment and Narrative in Vietnam brings together essays about Vietnam’s natural environments and environmental crises from the perspective of culture, with particular attention to narrative templates that have shaped perceptions and interactions with nature on the part of different communities. The essays in this volume explore theoretical problems in the assessment of ecological stewardship and attitudes toward nature across cultures. They focus on both majority (Kinh) and ethnic minority narratives about nature and seek to outline how different ideas of modernization, from the French colonial project to the Marxist understanding of nature on the part of the Communist government, have shaped perceptions, policies, and activism regarding the environment. The essays also highlight the tensions and confluences between nationalist nation-building projects and economic integration into global markets for environmental thinking over the last half-century, and they analyze how texts from literary fiction to contemporary news media represent different environmental cultures in Vietnam. Taken together, the essays in Environment and Narrative in Vietnam begin to fill a significant gap in the understanding of environmental cultures in Asia and in the Environmental Humanities. This is an open access book. Ursula K. Heise is holds the Marcia H. Howard Term Chair in Literary Studies. She is co-founder and Director of the Lab for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS) at UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Her research and teaching focus on contemporary literature and the environmental humanities; environmental literature, arts, and cultures in the Americas, Germany, Japan, and Spain; literature and science; science fiction; and narrative theory. She is co-editor of Literatures, Cultures and the Environment series for Palgrave Macmillan. Chi P. Pham is a Tenured Researcher at the Institute of Literature, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Hanoi. She received her first Ph.D. degree in Literary Theory in Vietnam and her second Ph.D. degree in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside (USA). She is the secretary of the Association for the Study of Literature and Ecology in ASEAN (ASLE-ASEAN)

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Heise, Ursula K. (Herausgeber); Pham, Chi P. (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783031411847
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2024
    Series: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
    Other subjects: (lcsh)Ecocriticism.; (lcsh)Oriental literature.; (lcsh)Human ecology--History.; (lcsh)Communication in the environmental sciences.; Ecocriticism.; Asian Literature.; Environmental History.; Environmental Communication.
    Scope: Online-Ressource, XVI, 351 p. 15 illus., online resource.
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    1. Introduction -- Part 1: Theoretical Foundations -- 2. Christian CULAS: Protected Area Narratives in Vietnam: An Anthropological and Mesological Approach -- Part 2: Indigenous and Spiritual Narratives of the Environment -- 3. NGUYEN Thi Kim Ngan: Legends of Forest Spirits in the Central Vietnamese Highlands -- 4. Achariya CHOOWONGLERT: Tai Narrative, Ritual, and Discourses of the Environment in North Central Vietnam -- 5. THACH Mai Hoang: Animal Mercy Release, Environmental Conservation, and the Media in Vietnam -- Part 3: War Narratives and the Environment -- 6. HOANG Cam-Giang: Narratives of the Natural World in Vietnamese Postwar Movies (1986-2020) -- 7. Montira RATO: Ecopedagogy, War Memories, and Sensory Experiences of Nature in Contemporary Vietnamese Children’s Literature -- 8. Conor LAUESEN: Dinh Q. Lê's The Pure Land and Ecological Phantoms: Levitating Sarcophagi, Submerged Spirits -- Part 4: Communism, Global Markets, and the Environment -- 9. Ben TRAN: Civil War, Socialism’s Underworld, and the Environment -- 10. Sarah GRANT: Ecologies of Coffee Sustainability in the Central Highlands -- Part 5: Environmental Literature in Vietnam -- 11. NGUYEN Phuong Ngoc: Environmental Travel Narratives in the Magazine Nam Phong -- 12. CAO Lan: Gender and Environment in Nguyễn Ngoc Tu’s Narratives -- 13. TRẦN Tịnh Vy: When the City Speaks Up: Nature, City, and Identity in Lê Minh Hà's Phố vẫn gió -- 14. PHAM P. Chi: Political Dimensions in Vietnamese Ecofiction