num_pages: 44
description: Link to free ebook on Official Webpage (see URL belowe)Climate scientists use models and graphs and maps to tell us what the world might be like in times to come  but telling us what life in those worlds might be like is the role of literary writing. In all of its forms and genres fiction imagines and depicts the human  and sometimes the nonhuman  experience. In the case of climate change stories can bring the abstract trends and statistics of climate science to life by presenting the manifold textures of the human perspective. Fiction making is an inherently speculative practice. Future-oriented fiction tasks us to conceive anticipate and authorise subjective accounts of life being lived in circumstances different from our own. This isnt (just) about new gadgets or dystopic disasters; its about the challenges of living in a world that at present we can only imagine.But all lives are lived differently and every perspective is unique: there is no The Future but many imagined futures plural and unevenly distributed in space and time alike. We believe that by surveying such imagined futures we can learn a lot about the ways in which we might live in a warming world.Thats why the Climaginaries research project in cooperation with the Narrating Climate Futures initiative hosted a climate fiction competition. Our aim was to curate a small collection of stories whose narratives depict and explore a climate-changed world!A reconciliation by Anna Orridge Nets by Heather Elgar Skyscraper Reflections by Inas Hamdan An acid sea by Andrew Villeneuve En glob av glas by Cecilia Falkman What is Climaginaries?
language: English
title: AnthropoScenes: A climate fiction contest
publisher: Lund University