Climate Change as a Crisis of Imagination
Stories have always enabled people to make sense of the world and others, and this book encourages a radical rethinking of how we tell stories about climate change. This book proposes that, while climate change may be a result of policy implementation and the incompatibility of capitalism with our finite resources, a narrative failure is also inhibiting our ability to imagine alternative futures.

Considering the contrasting perspectives of writer Amitav Ghosh and theorist Mark Bould, the book reconciles their storytelling for criminologists and all those concerned about—and working towards avoiding—catastrophic climate change.

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Climate Change as a Crisis of Imagination
Stories have always enabled people to make sense of the world and others, and this book encourages a radical rethinking of how we tell stories about climate change. This book proposes that, while climate change may be a result of policy implementation and the incompatibility of capitalism with our finite resources, a narrative failure is also inhibiting our ability to imagine alternative futures.

Considering the contrasting perspectives of writer Amitav Ghosh and theorist Mark Bould, the book reconciles their storytelling for criminologists and all those concerned about—and working towards avoiding—catastrophic climate change.

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Climate Change as a Crisis of Imagination

Climate Change as a Crisis of Imagination

by Avi Brisman
Climate Change as a Crisis of Imagination

Climate Change as a Crisis of Imagination

by Avi Brisman

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Stories have always enabled people to make sense of the world and others, and this book encourages a radical rethinking of how we tell stories about climate change. This book proposes that, while climate change may be a result of policy implementation and the incompatibility of capitalism with our finite resources, a narrative failure is also inhibiting our ability to imagine alternative futures.

Considering the contrasting perspectives of writer Amitav Ghosh and theorist Mark Bould, the book reconciles their storytelling for criminologists and all those concerned about—and working towards avoiding—catastrophic climate change.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781529235715
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Publication date: 05/01/2026
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.99(h) x (d)

About the Author

Avi Brisman is Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University.

Table of Contents

1. This is Personal: A Preface to an (the?) Apocalypse

2. The Planet is Burning and Drowning and Dying: Who Needs a Methods Section and a Literature Review?

3. Ghosh vs. Bould: The Great Derangement vs. The Anthropocene Unconscious

4. Does it Have to be Either/Or? (Part I): Bould and “the Old’”

5. Does it Have to be Either/Or? (Part II): Ghosh and “the New”

6. Conclusion: Failure or Crisis?

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