The Great Derangement

English language

Published July 12, 2016

ISBN:
978-0-670-08913-0
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The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable is a 2016 non-fiction book by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh discussing climate change. In it, Ghosh discusses the cultural depictions, history and politics of climate change, and its relationship to colonialism.

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The Great Derangement

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This was very interesting to read and definitely gave me a lot to think about. I liked the focus on how fiction is unable to speak about the climate crisis meaningfully, and the emphasis on power relations (and disparities) apart from pure economical ones, later on. The comparison between the texts of the Paris Agreement and Pope Francis's Laudato Si was genius.

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