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Swimming with the trouble: queer hydrofeminism and the sea cure in Deborah Levy’s “Hot Milk” (2016)
español La picante y relexiva novela “Hot Milk” (“Leche caliente”, 2016) de Deborah Levy sigue a una joven, Sofı́a, que viaja de Inglaterra a Almerı́a (España) en busca de una cura para las numerosas dolencias de su madre, Rosa. Sofı́a comienza a nadar en el Mediterráneo, donde le pican repetidamente medusas que, según descubre, han aumentado de forma abundante debido a la sobrepesca (3).
How writing about places people know makes the climate crisis less abstract
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The discourse around climate change can lead to anxiety, detachment or resignation because it often stretches language in ways that make the world feel distant. Global averages and abstract temperature thresholds make it harder for people to relate to climate change in their own specific location. And while the language of sustainable development appeals to rationality, it fails to engage people creatively and collectively.
How writing about places people know makes the climate crisis less abstract
The discourse around climate change can lead to anxiety, detachment or resignation because it often stretches language in ways that make the world feel distant. Global averages and abstract temperature thresholds make it harder for people to relate to climate change in their own specific location. And while the language of sustainable development appeals to rationality, it fails to engage people creatively and collectively.
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