Dear all -
My apologies for cross-posting, but I believe many of you will find the
following two books of great interest - for yourselves at this time, and
for your students.
I just completed reading the first of these, and heard of the second,
utterly timely book. Just ordered it, but didn't want to slow down
transmission to you all.
1) Ghosh, Amitav (2016). /The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the
//U//nthinkable/
<http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo22265507.html>.
Penguin Books.
If you are teaching climate politics, climate policy, climate
impacts (these three particularly, but not exclusively with an emphasis
on Asia, and cities), climate-literature (especially fiction, cli-fi),
or anything to do with the role of culture, cultural blinders, paradigms
and the curious phenomenon of climate silence - in short - all that
which is so utterly UNTHINKABLE, then this book is a fantastic
conversation starter. I found it particularly illuminating to read as we
are entering the Age of the Unthinkable since November 9, 2016. But it
is just as valuable for anyone teaching social movements, or the clash
of "realpolitik" and the various failures of our imagination.
2) Hochschild, Arlie Russell (2016). /Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger
and Mourning on the American Right/ <http://amzn.to/2fGFWyT>. The New Press.
Here is an interview with Hochschild that introduces what it is all
about. For any of you interested, particularly now, in trying to
understand those who supported Trump in the election, this may be a
doorway. Here is the link:
http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/why_we_need_empathy_in_the_age_of_trump.
None of you asked for extra reading, but I was inspired by them;
consider them "must reads;" and you all reach many students who struggle
at this moment in time with how to move forward. May these books be as
fruitful to you and them as they were to me.
Best,
Susi
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