Writing Borders and Other Barriers in the Era of Climate Crisis: Communities of Engagement
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Writing Borders and Other Barriers in the Era of Climate Crisis: Communities of Engagement
By (Author) Dr Olga Michael
Edited by Alan Rice
Edited by Ludmila Martanovschi
Edited by Katerina Antoniou
Edited by Jennifer Marie Bridgett Webster
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bloomsbury Academic
11th December 2025
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Physical Properties
Hardback
256
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
Description
Bringing together intersectional perspectives across disciplines such as the humanities, arts and social sciences, this book explores borders and crossings in relation to environmental damage and injustice in the context of the climate crisis.
Focusing on historical and contemporary borders and barriers, both physical, ideological, and ontological, this book examines their crossings, transformations, expansions, and reconfigurations in the post-COVID era of climate crisis. It explores the power of nationalist ideas that promote borders and the ways activists and artists work to challenge and break them down, looking at case studies such as the partition line in Cyprus and right wing extremism.
Focusing particularly on the way in which climate change literally alters the physical geography of borders, it looks at the representation of environmental crises, borders, barriers, and walls in literature, theatre, and other cultural and artistic expressions by writers as diverse as Franz Kafka, FastHorse, Rafeef Ziadah, and Claudia Rankine.
Reviews
This is not only a timely book but a valuable resource. It bridges several disciplines that have been trying to think through the changing geographical, political, existential, philosophical, and aesthetic questions surrounding borders at a time of climate emergency. That the book does so by paying attention to emergent literary genres, such as climate fiction, and established paradigms of border studies is noteworthy. * Malcolm Sen, Associate Professor, Environmental Humanities, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA *
Author Bio
Olga Michael is Adjunct Lecturer in Anglophone Literature at the University of Cyprus
Alan Rice is Professor in English and American Studies at the University of Central Lancashire, UK
Ludmila Martanovschi is Associate Professor in American Studies at Ovidius University, Romania
Katerina Antoniou is Assistant Professor in Tourism and International Relations at UCLan Cyprus
Jenny Webster is a Research Associate at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.
