Unit 6 Climate Collapse & the Great Displacement
10:00 - 10:15 Introduction ~ the Great Displacement
Survivalism- Children of Men - "I just don't think about it"
How does climate change manifest in popular culture? How does contemporary culture shape our understanding of climate change?
What is the role of displacement in these narratives? How does migration and displacement intersect with narratives of climate collapse?
What are common themes in climate disaster manifested in contemporary culture?
10.15 – 11.00 Mapping themes in climate disaster movies
Mapping themes in climate disaster movies from survivalism to transformative justice
11.15 – 13.00 Discussion on the text, the river by andrienne maree brown
Which are the main themes of the text? How does climate justice, intersect with racial and economic justice?
How is the particular relation to land, makes us rethink nativitism?
What is the function of haunting? What does haunting symbolize?
Think its relation to temporality.
From which perspective is the text written? How is the internal struggle of the main character represented?
Schedule
Chronicle
Put your class chronicle HERE
- Notes from Thursday 7th October
Migration as a "universal" experience - The Day After Tomorrow - Evacuate
When the North becomes the South - The Day After Tomorrow - Crossing
Who gets to govern? - Blood Quantum (2019)
Escapism and Utopias - Downsizing - Equivalent value
Nature taking over - Jeff VanderMeer - 'Annihilation,' Utopia, and Climate Change
Revenge of nature as healing - Wolfen
Within these stories, where is the agency? Who are the main characters and who has agency?
How do these representation reinforce or subvert power dynamics? How is trauma, violence, displacement depicted?
How depictions of disaster affect our imagination of "the end"? How do they affect our understanding of climate change?
Wolfen (1981) - Gentrification and the revenge of Nature
What is the relationship to terror, terrorism and territory? How is gentrification itself terror?