CfP: Edited Collection: Culture, Transport, Global Warming
One
of humanity’s most serious problems, climate change is clearly a
‘human-made’ catastrophe. Various factors have contributed to global
warming now turning into reality. One of the most significant, along
with power generation and industry, is of course CO2
omissions from transport using fossil fuels. While both technological
progress and climate change are popular themes in literature, film, and
the visual arts, the equivalent cultural obsession with these issues is
both scary and paradoxical. Cultural media have celebrated the might of
technology, the necessity of mechanization, and humanity’s inability to
exist and progress without transport by air, water, and land. At the
same time many vigorously powerful narratives draw audiences’ attention
worldwide to the problem of climate change caused by industrialization
that transportation immensely intensifies.
This collection aims to
trace the enigmatic and tacit relationship between global warming and
transport through the examination of various cultural artifacts (films,
TV-series, novels, graphic novels, photography, etc.) to understand how
through extensive depictions, they have created a cultural understanding
of humanity’s addiction to and obsession with transport on the one
hand, and its myopic attitude to the inevitability of the drastic
ramifications of environmental changes and/or a pathological fear of
global warming, on the other.
The editor invites interested contributors to send their abstracts of 300 words and short bios to tatiana.prorokova@gmx.de
until December 20, 2017. The file should be titled as follows: Last
Name_Abstract & Bio and should include your email address. Selected
authors will have to submit their chapters of no longer than 7,500 words
(Chicago Manual of Style) until April 10, 2018.
Contact Email: tatiana.prorokova@gmx.de