"Hope to do some good, no matter how fucked up you are": Ecoterrorism, Traumaand Ecological Affect inThe Ministry for the Future
As climate change becomes increasingly evident, public awareness has grown and mobilized into the environmental movement. Familiar concepts like global warming, ocean acidification, and mass extinction shape a charged emotional landscapewhere love for nature coexists with fear and despair. This tens...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Sevilla (US) |
| Repositorio: | idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:dnet:idus________::34ac2fe43e4df88a1e718a82d3d2427c |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/11441/185312 http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/REN.2025.i29.12 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | ecocriticism posthumanism ecoterrorism affect trauma speculative fiction ecocrítica posthumanismo ecoterrorismo afecto ficción especulativa |
| Sumario: | As climate change becomes increasingly evident, public awareness has grown and mobilized into the environmental movement. Familiar concepts like global warming, ocean acidification, and mass extinction shape a charged emotional landscapewhere love for nature coexists with fear and despair. This tension contributes to the rise of radical environmental activism, driven by disillusionment with ineffective policies and deep ecology’s biocentric philosophy. At its extreme, environmental direct action can culminate in ecoterrorism, defined as environmentally motivated violence or threats aimed at symbolic targets. The emotional balance underpinning environmentalism is increasingly unstable, shaped by eco-anxiety and climate trauma. This paper explores ecological affect through an ecocritical reading of the depiction of ecoterrorism in Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future,examining how climate trauma fuels radical responses and how such responses are portrayed, problematized, or legitimized in fiction. |
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