Climate crisis and Precarity: the politics of representation in Emmi Itäranta's Memory of Water.
This article investigates the representation of precarity in Finnish writer Emmi Itäranta's ecodystopian novel Memory of Water (2014). The novel depicts a state of ecoprecarity in which the lives of future populations are not only vulnerable, but also a broad spectrum of precarity defines them. Draw...
| Published in: | Journal for Cultural Research Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 415 - 429 |
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