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| author | Muhammad Islam Prof. Dr. Iesar Ahmad |
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| contents | <p>This paper analyses <em>The Ministry for the Future </em>(2020) by Kim Stanley Robinson using environmental Eco-critical and postcolonial lens to explore how climate change and socio-political vulnerabilities in South Asia are represented. The study identifies the specific exposure of the region to severe weather events, environmental degradation, and social and economic disproportions, and therefore examines the mediatory role of literature in ethical, political, and human responses to environmental crises. The study adopts a qualitative, interpretive approach incorporating close reading along with thematic analysis concentrating on the strategies of narration, imagery, and textual representation of floods, heatwave, migration and the institutional response. The results demonstrate that Robinson anticipates the unequal climate changing pressure upon the marginalized communities, points out to systemic inequalities, and underlines shared ethical accountability and adaptative governance. The novel incorporates the domains of science, policy, and ethics through polyphonic storytelling aimed at grappling with the imperfection of the local and the interference of the global forces. As the analysis shows, cli-fi is not just mirroring environmental forces but is also developing a critical approach, morality and climate justice activism. The paper highlights how literature has a potential to mediate between scientific knowledge, social-political critique, and ethical imagination and suggests a transformative prism through which the climate threats in South Asia and human strengths may be interpreted. These aspects of understanding are valuable to ecocriticism and climate fiction, as well as postcolonial environmental studies, whether narrative fiction plays a crucial role in the formation of communal conscience and the advocacy of international responsibility.</p> <p> </p> |
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| spellingShingle | CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS IMPACTS ON SOUTH ASIA: AN ECO-CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE BY KIM STANLEY ROBINSON Muhammad Islam Prof. Dr. Iesar Ahmad <p>This paper analyses <em>The Ministry for the Future </em>(2020) by Kim Stanley Robinson using environmental Eco-critical and postcolonial lens to explore how climate change and socio-political vulnerabilities in South Asia are represented. The study identifies the specific exposure of the region to severe weather events, environmental degradation, and social and economic disproportions, and therefore examines the mediatory role of literature in ethical, political, and human responses to environmental crises. The study adopts a qualitative, interpretive approach incorporating close reading along with thematic analysis concentrating on the strategies of narration, imagery, and textual representation of floods, heatwave, migration and the institutional response. The results demonstrate that Robinson anticipates the unequal climate changing pressure upon the marginalized communities, points out to systemic inequalities, and underlines shared ethical accountability and adaptative governance. The novel incorporates the domains of science, policy, and ethics through polyphonic storytelling aimed at grappling with the imperfection of the local and the interference of the global forces. As the analysis shows, cli-fi is not just mirroring environmental forces but is also developing a critical approach, morality and climate justice activism. The paper highlights how literature has a potential to mediate between scientific knowledge, social-political critique, and ethical imagination and suggests a transformative prism through which the climate threats in South Asia and human strengths may be interpreted. These aspects of understanding are valuable to ecocriticism and climate fiction, as well as postcolonial environmental studies, whether narrative fiction plays a crucial role in the formation of communal conscience and the advocacy of international responsibility.</p> <p> </p> |
| title | CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS IMPACTS ON SOUTH ASIA: AN ECO-CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE BY KIM STANLEY ROBINSON |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18929708 |