Amitav Ghosh: Climate Change Here and Now

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_1057
dc.title	Amitav Ghosh: Climate Change Here and Now
dc.contributor.author	Concilio Carmen
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/il-tolomeo/2017/1/amitav-ghosh-climate-change-here-and-now/
dc.description.abstract	In this contribution I would like to give back something of the atmosphere of the debate that gave birth to Amitav Ghosh’s essay The Great Derangement. Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016). By referring to the lectures that preceded its publication and to the introductory presentations of the author on behalf of major scholars of the University of Chicago, and to the questions by the audience, it is possible to reconstruct a whole debate that acquires different meanings in the Anglophone countries and in Europe. Questioning some of the assumptions implied in Amitav Ghosh’s discourse it is possible to better place his text and the relevance of climate change within our literary and philosophical discourse, and to re-think our cultural policies, and didactic engagement, here and now.
dc.relation.ispartof	Il Tolomeo
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 19 \| December 2017
dc.issued	2017-12-21
dc.dateAccepted	2017-09-06
dc.dateSubmitted	2017-07-13
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2499-5975
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/2499-5975/Tol-19-17-16
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Amitav Ghosh
dc.subject	Amitav Ghosh
dc.subject	Climate change
dc.subject	Climate change
dc.subject	Environmental humanities
dc.subject	Environmental humanities
dc.subject	Literature
dc.subject	Literature

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Carmen Concilio Università degli Studi di Torino, Italia

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In this contribution I would like to give back something of the atmosphere of the debate that gave birth to Amitav Ghosh’s essay The Great Derangement. Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016). By referring to the lectures that preceded its publication and to the introductory presentations of the author on behalf of major scholars of the University of Chicago, and to the questions by the audience, it is possible to reconstruct a whole debate that acquires different meanings in the Anglophone countries and in Europe. Questioning some of the assumptions implied in Amitav Ghosh’s discourse it is possible to better place his text and the relevance of climate change within our literary and philosophical discourse, and to re-think our cultural policies, and didactic engagement, here and now.

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Dec. 21, 2017

Accepted

Sept. 6, 2017

Submitted

July 13, 2017

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Keywords: Environmental humanities • Climate change • Amitav Ghosh • Literature

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