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Two cheers for collapse? On the uses and abuses of the societal collapse thesis for imagining Anthropocene futures
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Davidson, Joe P. L. (2023) Two cheers for collapse? On the uses and abuses of the societal collapse thesis for imagining Anthropocene futures. Environmental Politics . doi:10.1080/09644016.2022.2164238 ISSN 0964-4016. (In Press)
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2022.2164238
Abstract
There is nothing new about predictions that climate change will cause serious social problems in the twenty-first century. However, in recent years, some tendencies in the environmental movement have made an even stronger assertion: the climate-induced collapse of industrial society is highly likely and may have positive consequences. This claim, which I term the collapse thesis, is associated with the deep adaptation movement in Britain and the collapsology movement in France. In this article, I analyse the work of key theorists associated with these movements to outline the core tenets of the societal collapse thesis. Responding to the criticisms directed against the idea of societal collapse, I partially defend the thesis by reading it as a form of science fiction. Following Darko Suvin’s notion of cognitive estrangement, it is argued that collapse encourages us to pinpoint the unstable ecological preconditions of everyday life and posit a new utopian world.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CB History of civilization G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Social change , Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on, Climate and civilization, Regression (Civilization), Global environmental change -- Forecasting | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Environmental Politics | ||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0964-4016 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 16 January 2023 | ||||||
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| DOI: | 10.1080/09644016.2022.2164238 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | In Press | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 24 January 2023 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 25 January 2023 |
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