at Google ScholarTitle data
Mayer, Sylvia:
Planetarity, Resilience, and Climate Change in Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future.
In: Nagl-Docekal, Herta ; Löschnigg, Maria
(ed.):
Nature as Resource, Aesthetic Experience, and Ecological Challenge. -
Berlin
: De Gruyter
,
2026
. - pp. 189-206
. - (Wiener Reihe : Themen der Philosophie
; 23
)
ISBN 978-3-11-914670-8
Abstract in another language
Drawing on the entangled concepts of planetarity and resilience, the essay discusses Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future as climate resilience narrative. Relying on a planetary aesthetic that is most importantly articulated in a multiplicity of narrative voices and in a spatiality marked by relationality, bioconnectivity, and deterritorialization, Robinson’s novel explores various paths and strategies toward a carbon-neutral, sustainable, and just planetary future that overcome current neoliberal globalization by replacing it with a new sociopolitical, economic, and cultural order that is based on ontological relationality and ethical solidarity. The novel’s framing of resilience building as psycho-social, socio-ecological, and economic endeavor draws attention to the adaptive and transformative capacities necessary for a fundamental reorganization of societies and economies on a planetary scale, which ultimately balance human and more-than-human needs with ecological planetary boundaries.
Further data
| Item Type: | Article in a book |
|---|---|
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Institutions of the University: | Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature > Chair American Studies/ Anglophone Literatures and Cultures > Chair American Studies/ Anglophone Literatures and Cultures - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sylvia Mayer Profile Fields > Emerging Fields > Cultural Encounters and Transcultural Processes Research Institutions > Central research institutes > Bayreuth Institute for American Studies - BIFAS |
| Result of work at the UBT: | Yes |
| DDC Subjects: | 800 Literature > 810 American literature in English |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Feb 2026 11:22 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Feb 2026 11:22 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/96037 |