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Contesting the climate unthinkable : Latin American cultural responses to a warming world / edited by Azucena Castro, Gianfranco Selgas, and Ken Benson.

Castro, Azucena, editor.; Selgas, Gianfranco, 1988- editor.; Benson, Ken, editor.
2025
PN56.C612
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Title
Contesting the climate unthinkable : Latin American cultural responses to a warming world / edited by Azucena Castro, Gianfranco Selgas, and Ken Benson.
ISBN
9781683405672 (electronic bk.)
1683405676 (electronic bk.)
1683405765 (electronic bk.)
9781683405764 (electronic bk.)
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Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 2025.
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English
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PN56.C612
Dewey Decimal Classification
809/.9336
Summary
"Examining Latin American cultural works that rethink environmental change and natural catastrophes. This volume explores Latin American cultural works from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that reflect environmental changes brought on by colonization, capitalism, and resource exploitation. Contributors examine films, novels, photographs, and videos from the Caribbean, the Southern Cone, the Andes, and the Amazon, showcasing how artists, writers, and activists depict the scale and impact of ecological crises. Drawing from environmental humanities, decolonial thought, and Indigenous scholarship, this book examines how relationships with the nonhuman reshape human understandings of ecological collapse and resilience. Contributors discuss movies on toxic waste in Chile and Bolivia, gothic elements in horror, art and mineral extraction in Venezuela, dystopian novels set in the Río de la Plata, Mapuche poetry and dance in protest of terricidio, and utopias in Brazilian Afrofuturistic novels. They show how speculative fiction, testimonial narratives, experimental films, and site-specific installations address environmental disasters, climate breakdown, and extractivism, revealing the colonial histories and economic structures that underpin climate change. The chapters in this book examine artistic forms that amplify the voices of affected communities and envision more ethical futures rooted in regional cultures, geographies, and practices. Highlighting the significance of perspectives from the Global South, this volume broadens understandings of environmental justice and ways of rethinking planetary survival. Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Contributors: Paul Merchant, Igor Barreto, Ken Benson, Victoria Saramago, José Carlos Díaz Zanelli, Andrés Obando, Jasmin Belmar Shagulian, Patrick Brock, Gianfranco Selgas, Sebastian Wiedemann, Roberto Roabilnho, Azucena Castro, Emily Baker, Montserrat Madariaga-Caro, Allison Mackey"-- Provided by publisher.
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Selgas, Gianfranco, 1988- editor.
Benson, Ken, editor.
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Introduction : contesting the climate unthinkable : Latin America and the warming world / Gianfranco Selgas, Azucena Castro, Ken Benson
Dying well : micropolitics of life against terricidio in Mapuche poetics / Montserrat Madariaga-Caro
The art of an ecological constitution : beyond derangement in Chile / Paul R. Merchant
Entangled ruins : nature and post-catastrophic landscapes in Hiram Bingham's Inca land and José de la Riva-Aguero's Paisajes peruanos / Andrés Ernesto Obando
What is the conflict about? : ecology, ontology, and decoloniality in Joseph Zarate's Guerras del interior / José Carlos Díaz Zanelli
Archives of the planetary mine : art, political ecology, and media geology in Chile and Venezuela / Gianfranco Selgas
Fiction writing and environmental conservation in Latin America : the cases of João Guimarães Rosa and Alejo Carpentier / Victoria Saramago
Embodying anthropocene awareness in ecogótico rioplatense / Allison Mackey
Haunting trees in the Global South : image and life in the rubble of climate change / Roberto Robalinho
Toxic transits : ghostly double-gazes, slow violence and North-South ecologies of inequalities in the films sealed cargo (Bolivia) and Arica (Chile) / Azucena Castro
Culture, inequality, and queer ecology in Rita Indiana's La mucama de Omicunl / Emily Baker
Toward a cosmopolitics of the image : notes for a possible ecology of cinematic practices / Sebastian Wiedemann
Brazilian Afrofuturism, climate apocalypse, and heuristic function / Patrick Brock
Choike Purrun : the Mapuche people's sacred dance / Jasmin Belmar Shagulian
The paths not seen : how I structured my representation of nature / Igor Barreto.

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