Magic, Literature and Climate Pedagogy in a Time of Ecological Crisis
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Africanfuturism
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Anthropocene
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Black studies
C. S. Lewis
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children's literature
Christiane Vadnais
climate crisis
Ecocriticism
environmental consciousness
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extinction
Ezekiel Kwaymullina
fantasy
Great Acceleration
J. G. Ballard
Jeff VanderMeer
Madeline Miller
N. K. Jemisin
Nnedi Okorafor
posthumanism
Richard Powers
science fiction
Tomi Adeyemi
Ursula LeGuin
Product details
- ISBN 9781350401181
- Weight: 200g
- Dimensions: 152 x 232mm
- Publication Date: 19 Mar 2026
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Channeling the creative potential of humanity to transition towards joyous and just futures in times of life-threatening climate change, this book uses metaphors of magic and shapeshifting to imagine liveable futures achievable through other-than-rational means.
Focusing on a wide range of 20th and 21st-century novels from a diverse range of writers such as Madeline Miller, Jeff VanderMeer, Ursula LeGuin, N.K. Jemisin, Ambelin Kwaymullina and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, it suggests that readers take seriously the pedagogical potential of magic in literature for the classroom and beyond while providing them with contextualized, collective methods of climate action.
Sofia Ahlberg is Vice Dean at the Faculty of Languages at Uppsala University, Sweden.
