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Contesting the Climate Unthinkable: Latin American Cultural Responses to a Warming World

by Azucena Castro

Latin American culture and environmental change

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Latin American culture and environmental change

This edited volume brings together analysis of twentieth- and twenty-first-century films, novels, photographs, and videos from across Latin America, including the Caribbean, Southern Cone, Andes, and Amazon. Its contributors connect ecological crises with histories of colonization, capitalism, and resource extraction, drawing on environmental humanities, decolonial thought, and Indigenous scholarship. The range of media and regions makes the book a cross-disciplinary account of how cultural works represent environmental disruption, catastrophe, and resilience. The supplied description also points to subjects including toxic waste, mineral extraction, and horror’s gothic elements.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers studying Latin American cultural production and literary criticism.
  • Those interested in environmental humanities, decolonial thought, or Indigenous scholarship.
  • Readers exploring ecological themes across film, literature, photography, and video.

Themes

Environmental change and ecological crisisColonization, capitalism, and resource exploitationLatin American cultural productionNonhuman relationships, collapse, and resilience

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Book overview

Examining Latin American cultural works that rethink environmental change and natural catastrophes

This volume explores Latin American cultural works from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that reflect environmental changes brought on by colonization, capitalism, and resource exploitation. Contributors examine films, novels, photographs, and videos from the Caribbean, the Southern Cone, the Andes, and the Amazon, showcasing how artists, writers, and activists depict the scale and impact of ecological crises.

Drawing from environmental humanities, decolonial thought, and Indigenous scholarship, this book examines how relationships with the nonhuman reshape human understandings of ecological collapse and resilience. Contributors discuss movies on toxic waste in Chile and Bolivia, gothic elements in horror, art and mineral extraction in Venezuela, dystopian novels set in the R

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