num_pages: 336
description: Presents thirty novel terms that do not yet exist in English to envision ways of responding to the environmental challenges of our generation As the scale and gravity of climate change becomes undeniable a cultural revolution must ultimately match progress in the realms of policy infrastructure and technology. Proceeding from the notion that dominant Western cultures lack the terms and concepts to describe or respond to our environmental crisis An Ecotopian Lexicon is a collaborative volume of short engaging essays that offer ecologically productive termsdrawn from other languages science fiction and subcultures of resistanceto envision and inspire responses and alternatives to fossil-fueled neoliberal capitalism. Each of the thirty suggested loanwords helps us imagine how to adapt and even flourish in the face of the socioecological adversity that characterizes the present moment and the future that awaits. From Apocalypso to Qi  *  to Total Liberation thirty authors from a range of disciplines and backgrounds assemble a grounded yet dizzying lexicon expanding the limited European and North American conceptual lexicon that many activists educators scholars students and citizens have inherited. Fourteen artists from eleven countries respond to these chapters with original artwork that illustrates the contours of the possible better worlds and worldviews. Sofia Ahlberg Uppsala U; Randall Amster Georgetown U; Cherice Bock Antioch U; Charis Boke Cornell U; Natasha Bowdoin Rice U; Kira Bre Clingen Harvard U; Caledonia Curry (SWOON); Lori Damiano Pacific Northwest College of Art; Nicols De Jess; Jonathan Dyck; John Esposito Chukyo U; Rebecca Evans Winston-Salem State U; Allison Ford U of Oregon; Carolyn Fornoff U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Michelle Kuen Suet Fung; Andrew Hageman Luther College; Michael Horka George Washington U; Yellena James; Andrew Alan Johnson Princeton U; Jennifer Lee Johnson Purdue U; Melody Jue U of California Santa Barbara; Jenny Kendler; Daehyun Kim (Moonassi); Yifei Li NYU Shanghai; Nikki Lindt; Anthony Lioi Juilliard School of New York; Maryanto; Janet Tamalik McGrath; Pierre-Hli Monot Ludwig Maximilian U of Munich; Kari Marie Norgaard U of Oregon; Karen OBrien U of Oslo Norway; Evelyn OMalley U of Exeter; Robert Savino Oventile Pasadena City College; Chris Pak; David N. Pellow U of California Santa Barbara; Andrew Pendakis Brock U; Kimberly Skye Richards U of California Berkeley; Ann Kristin Schorre U of Oslo Norway; Malcolm Sen U of Massachusetts Amherst; Kate Shaw; Sam Solnick U of Liverpool; Rirkrit Tiravanija Columbia U; Miriam Tola Northeastern U; Sheena Wilson U of Alberta; Daniel Worden Rochester Institute of Technology.
language: English
title: An Ecotopian Lexicon
publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press