The Resilient Apocalypse

Author : Julia Alexis Kushigian
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Apocalypse in literature
ISBN : 9781469681900

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"Portraits of 'good battling evil' in the geography of Hell come in many forms in the Hispanic World. Apocalyptic nightmares, fearful images of life, chaos and death are inclusive and interdepEndent, yet simultaneously project an exceptional quality. Where images remain unfulfilled in narrow allegiances to a proscribed End, this investigation explores how narrative logic may challenge unified notions of finalities. Redeploying transglobal character and narrative potential, it distinguishes itself by training the lens on New Beginnings. Its analysis embeds resilient formulas for combating the End through resistance in Latin America and Spain revealed in gilded illustration, decolonizing drama, messianic chronicles and poetry, baroque letters, racially-motivated novels, sexuality-threatening films, and intimidating immigrant photos complete with destruction wreaked by climate change. Through chaos the resilient Apocalypse simultaneously performs as an internal defense (a vehicle for mourning) and a counter-discourse to power (a mechanism for resistance). Its strategy listens to and keeps the enemy 'in sight and in mind,' a formula for grappling with and engaging difference that analyzes the traces left on each other's cultural fabric in an open-Ended, communal struggle. This study argues for decolonizing the politics of the End and reformulating an incomplete, mythical, uncanny quality into a poetics of resistance garnering communal solutions and obligations. Here the Apocalypse is unremittingly sought after to redefine social justice, salvation and reality over time and past collateral damage, ironically providing future hope against itself, the crushing fear of the End. It crystalizes what had yet to be comprehensively explored: how rival traditions internalize competing apocalyptic worldviews to arrive at sustainable plans of action, time-tested, reputable cultural models to control dissension from within and without, and social goals supported by traces the other imprints on their cultural ethos. Bracketing the finality of the End and arguing the process from conflict archaeology toward New Beginnings, salvation, solace or hope, resolves an incomplete myth by negotiating the afterward. Revealing how plural, competing viewpoints of the End go a long way to legitimize each other, this theory of unfulfilled promise forever changes the way we engage the other and value the self"

Author : Julia Alexis Kushigian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Apocalypse in literature
ISBN : 1469681889

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The Resilient Apocalypse by Julia Alexis Kushigian Pdf

"Portraits of 'good battling evil' in the geography of Hell come in many forms in the Hispanic World. Apocalyptic nightmares, fearful images of life, chaos and death are inclusive and interdepEndent, yet simultaneously project an exceptional quality. Where images remain unfulfilled in narrow allegiances to a proscribed End, this investigation explores how narrative logic may challenge unified notions of finalities. Redeploying transglobal character and narrative potential, it distinguishes itself by training the lens on New Beginnings. Its analysis embeds resilient formulas for combating the End through resistance in Latin America and Spain revealed in gilded illustration, decolonizing drama, messianic chronicles and poetry, baroque letters, racially-motivated novels, sexuality-threatening films, and intimidating immigrant photos complete with destruction wreaked by climate change. Through chaos the resilient Apocalypse simultaneously performs as an internal defense (a vehicle for mourning) and a counter-discourse to power (a mechanism for resistance). Its strategy listens to and keeps the enemy 'in sight and in mind,' a formula for grappling with and engaging difference that analyzes the traces left on each other's cultural fabric in an open-Ended, communal struggle. This study argues for decolonizing the politics of the End and reformulating an incomplete, mythical, uncanny quality into a poetics of resistance garnering communal solutions and obligations. Here the Apocalypse is unremittingly sought after to redefine social justice, salvation and reality over time and past collateral damage, ironically providing future hope against itself, the crushing fear of the End. It crystalizes what had yet to be comprehensively explored: how rival traditions internalize competing apocalyptic worldviews to arrive at sustainable plans of action, time-tested, reputable cultural models to control dissension from within and without, and social goals supported by traces the other imprints on their cultural ethos. Bracketing the finality of the End and arguing the process from conflict archaeology toward New Beginnings, salvation, solace or hope, resolves an incomplete myth by negotiating the afterward. Revealing how plural, competing viewpoints of the End go a long way to legitimize each other, this theory of unfulfilled promise forever changes the way we engage the other and value the self"--

Author : Jonathan Franzen
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780008434052

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What If We Stopped Pretending? by Jonathan Franzen Pdf

The climate change is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it.

Author : Mr.Serhan Cevik,João Tovar Jalles
Publisher : INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1513560409

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An Apocalypse Foretold: Climate Shocks and Sovereign Defaults by Mr.Serhan Cevik,João Tovar Jalles Pdf

Climate change poses an existential threat to the global economy. While there is a growing body of literature on the economic consequences of climate change, research on the link between climate change and sovereign default risk is nonexistent. We aim to fill this gap in the literature by estimating the impact of climate change vulnerability and resilience on the probability of sovereign debt default. Using a sample of 116 countries over the period 1995–2017, we find that climate change vulnerability and resilience have significant effects on the probability of sovereign debt default, especially among low-income countries. That is, countries with greater vulnerability to climate change face a higher likelihood of debt default compared to more climate resilient countries. These findings remain robust to a battery of sensitivity checks, including alternative measures of sovereign debt default, model specifications, and estimation methodologies.

Author : Kankia Aliyu Yusuf
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798878684682

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Whispers of Haven by Kankia Aliyu Yusuf Pdf

In the desolate wasteland of a zombie apocalypse, John, a man hardened by loss, finds solace in a haven of survivors called Haven. But their peaceful existence is shattered by a brutal raider attack, leaving John and a ragtag group to fight for their home and rebuild lives amidst the ashes. Fueled by grief and hope, they embark on a daring mission, utilizing John's survival skills and newfound courage to reclaim Haven and forge a future where humanity's spirit flickers brighter than the apocalypse's darkness. This is a story of resilience, community, and the unwavering will to survive, a testament to the human spirit even in the face of unimaginable darkness.

Author : Steven J. Kirsh
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781476673882

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Parenting in the Zombie Apocalypse by Steven J. Kirsh Pdf

Parenting is difficult under the best of circumstances--but extremely daunting when humanity faces cataclysmic annihilation. When the dead rise, hardship, violence and the ever-present threat of flesh-eating zombies will adversely affect parents and children alike. Depending on their age, children will have little chance of surviving a single encounter with the undead, let alone the unending peril of the Zombie Apocalypse. The key to their survival--and thus the survival of the species--will be the caregiving they receive. Drawing on psychological theory and real-world research on developmental status, grief, trauma, mental illness, and child-rearing in stressful environments, this book critically examines factors influencing parenting, and the likely outcomes of different caregiving techniques in the hypothetical landscape of the living dead.

Author : Mike L
Publisher : Global Collapse
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798223865179

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Apocalypse Now by Mike L Pdf

Author : Alice C. Hill,Leonardo Martinez-Diaz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Climate change mitigation
ISBN : 9780190909345

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Building a Resilient Tomorrow by Alice C. Hill,Leonardo Martinez-Diaz Pdf

Even under the most optimistic scenarios, significant global climate change is now inevitable. While squarely confronting the scale of the risks we face, Building a Resilient Tomorrow presents replicable sustainability successes and clear-cut policy recommendations that can improve the climate resilience of communities in the US and beyond.

Author : Michael Shellenberger
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780063001701

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Apocalypse Never by Michael Shellenberger Pdf

Now a National Bestseller! Climate change is real but it’s not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem. Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world’s last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today’s Green New Deal. And he led a successful effort by climate scientists and activists to keep nuclear plants operating, preventing a spike of emissions. But in 2019, as some claimed “billions of people are going to die,” contributing to rising anxiety, including among adolescents, Shellenberger decided that, as a lifelong environmental activist, leading energy expert, and father of a teenage daughter, he needed to speak out to separate science from fiction. Despite decades of news media attention, many remain ignorant of basic facts. Carbon emissions peaked and have been declining in most developed nations for over a decade. Deaths from extreme weather, even in poor nations, declined 80 percent over the last four decades. And the risk of Earth warming to very high temperatures is increasingly unlikely thanks to slowing population growth and abundant natural gas. Curiously, the people who are the most alarmist about the problems also tend to oppose the obvious solutions. What’s really behind the rise of apocalyptic environmentalism? There are powerful financial interests. There are desires for status and power. But most of all there is a desire among supposedly secular people for transcendence. This spiritual impulse can be natural and healthy. But in preaching fear without love, and guilt without redemption, the new religion is failing to satisfy our deepest psychological and existential needs.

Author : Earl T. Harper,Doug Specht
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000453508

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Imagining Apocalyptic Politics in the Anthropocene by Earl T. Harper,Doug Specht Pdf

Bringing together scholars from English literature, geography, politics, the arts, environmental humanities and sociology, Imagining Apocalyptic Politics in the Anthropocene contributes to the emerging debate between bodies of thought first incepted by scholars such as Mouffe, Whyte, Kaplan, Hunt, Swyngedouw and Malm about how apocalyptic events, narratives and imaginaries interact with societal and individual agency historically and in the current political moment. Exploring their own empirical and philosophical contexts, the authors examine the forms of political acting found in apocalyptic imaginaries and reflect on what this means for contemporary society. By framing their arguments around either pre-apocalyptic, peri-apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic narratives and events, a timeline emerges throughout the volume which shows the different opportunities for political agency the anthropocenic subject can enact at the various stages of apocalyptic moments. Featuring a number of creative interventions exclusively produced for the work from artists and fiction writers who engage with the themes of apocalypse, decline, catastrophe and disaster, this innovative book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the politics of climate change, the environmental humanities, literary criticism and eco-criticism.

Author : Toni Cox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1070792136

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Resilient by Toni Cox Pdf

What would you do if you were the last person on Earth? The outbreak of the S1 Virus in China is breaking news all over the globe - it is killing apes by the hundreds. Erika, who has a pretty good life in Johannesburg, South Africa, is little concerned with wildlife disasters so far away. But when Erika falls ill and is bedridden for a couple of days, the world is not as she left it. An empty city greets her the day she sets foot outside her door. Abandoned cars, a creepy silence, and hollow-eyed corpses is all she finds. Alone, frightened, and heartbroken, she must now find a way to survive this apocalyptic world she has woken up to. Does she have the will, the strength, and the ingenuity to survive? Against all odds she has one thing going for her - she's resilient.

Author : Joseph T Hauser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798869170019

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Undead Express by Joseph T Hauser Pdf

Embark on an extraordinary journey through the heart of a post-apocalyptic world in 'Undead Express: Chronicles of Resilience.' As the remnants of humanity navigate the perils of the reclaimed landscape, follow a diverse group of survivors aboard a resilient train known as the Undead Express. From the bustling streets of New York to the challenging terrain of the South, witness their unwavering determination to overcome the undead threat and rebuild society. Led by Jack, a former NYPD officer; Sofia, a skilled medic; Emma, a resourceful engineer; and Marcus, a strategic genius, this eclectic group forms an unbreakable bond as they confront the unknown. The Undead Express becomes more than a mode of transportation; it becomes a symbol of hope, unity, and the enduring spirit of humanity. Navigate through chapters filled with trials, triumphs, loss, and renewal as the survivors forge a legacy in the Legacy Center within the train. Join them in facing the shadows of the unknown, discovering the strength within unity, and embracing the echoes of hope that resonate through every carriage. In this captivating tale of resilience, witness the unwritten future of a world reborn and the indomitable human spirit that prevails against all odds. 'Undead Express: Chronicles of Resilience' is a gripping saga that transcends the boundaries of survival fiction, weaving a narrative of courage, camaraderie, and the enduring legacy of those who dared to reclaim a world on the brink of collapse. Brace yourself for an epic tale that will linger in your heart, urging you to ponder the boundless possibilities that arise when humanity unites in the face of adversity."

Author : Roslyn Weaver
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786484652

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Apocalypse in Australian Fiction and Film by Roslyn Weaver Pdf

Australia has been a frequent choice of location for narratives about the end of the world in science fiction and speculative works, ranging from pre-colonial apocalyptic maps to key literary works from the last fifty years. This critical work explores the role of Australia in both apocalyptic literature and film. Works and genres covered include Nevil Shute’s popular novel On the Beach, Mad Max, children’s literature, Indigenous writing, and cyberpunk. The text examines ways in which apocalypse is used to undermine complacency, foretell environmental disasters, critique colonization, and to serve as a means of protest for minority groups. Australian apocalypse imagines Australia at the ends of the world, geographically and psychologically, but also proposes spaces of hope for the future.

Author : Michael Lewis,Pat Conaty
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781550925050

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The Resilience Imperative by Michael Lewis,Pat Conaty Pdf

“[The authors] argue that with more integration and cooperation between businesses, governments and communities, a more sustainable economy is possible.” —The Environmental Magazine We find ourselves between a rock and a hot place—compelled by the intertwined forces of peak oil and climate change to reinvent our economic life at a much more local and regional scale. The Resilience Imperative argues for a major SEE (social, ecological, economic) change as a prerequisite for replacing the paradigm of limitless economic growth with a more decentralized, cooperative, steady-state economy. The authors present a comprehensive series of strategic questions within the broad areas of: Energy sufficiency Local food systems Interest-free financing Affordable housing and land reform Sustainable community development Each section is complemented by case studies of pioneering community initiatives rounded out by a discussion of transition factors and resilience reflections. With a focus on securing and sustaining change, this provocative book challenges deeply embedded cultural assumptions. Profoundly hopeful and inspiring, The Resilience Imperative affirms the possibilities of positive change as it is shaped by individuals, communities, and institutions learning to live within our ecological limits. “Resilience is the watchword for our dawning era of economic and environmental instability . . . The Resilience Imperative is exactly what’s needed to get us moving in the right direction.” —Richard Heinberg, author of Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival “Exceptionally valuable—in vision, in strategic understanding, in concrete ways to build forward. A handbook for a morally meaningful and sustainable future!” —Gar Alperovitz, author of America Beyond Capitalism

Author : Yoku Shaw-Taylor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781636713854

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Immigration, the Borderlands, and the Resilient Homeland by Yoku Shaw-Taylor Pdf

This title combines original research, case studies, and critical analysis to cover highly charged topics in America today. It is divided into two sections; the first section discusses immigration and the borderlands while the second section covers topics such as the resilient citizen, lessons learned from the pandemic, and disaster recovery.