<p>This dissertation, titled “Uncertainty Discourse: Climate Models, Gender, and
Environmental Literature in the Anthropocene,” takes a feminist approach to
sustainability through the lens of climate science and English-language
environmental fiction. I diagnose the appearance of what I call a
discourse of uncertainty, which describes new constitutions of thought and
social organization emerging in response to the structural uncertainties that
characterize climate change. I root this discourse in the scientific practice
of climate modeling, by which scientists calculate the probability, or degrees
of uncertainty, of future weather scenarios. Though climate models inform
socio-political preparations for a climate-changed future, their utility has
gone unheeded in the humanities. I fill this gap by placing scientific and
literary depictions of uncertainty into conversation to explore their
epistemological and ethical implications for a climate-changing future through
issues such as gender and representation, politics and sustainability, and
knowledge and time. I not only trace how uncertainty is manifested in contemporary
environmental literature, such as Ian McEwan’s <i>Solar</i> (2010) and Barbara Kingsolver’s <i>Flight Behavior </i>(2012), but also consider the drama of South Asian
women playwrights alongside the works of feminist scholars, philosophers, and
activists.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:purdue.edu/oai:figshare.com:article/8969927 |
| Date | 13 August 2019 |
| Creators | Pamela Carralero (7012823) |
| Source Sets | Purdue University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis |
| Rights | CC BY 4.0 |
| Relation | https://figshare.com/articles/Uncertainty_Discourse_Climate_Models_Gender_and_Environmental_Literature_in_the_Anthropocene/8969927 |
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