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| Science, fiction and power: rethinking planetarity through post-Earth science fiction from China | |
| 项目编号 | CRSK-1_190261 |
| Bichsel Christine | |
| 项目主持机构 | University of Fribourg - FR |
| 开始日期 | 2020-02-01 |
| 结束日期 | 2021-01-31 |
| 中文摘要 | This project entails a geography of science fiction (SF) from China to advance the concept of planetarity. Scholars are still struggling to grasp conceptually the scale of climate change. They frequently mobilise the concepts of globality and the Anthropocene to analyse these processes; underplaying, however, their diverse dimensions. As a corrective, I advance the concept of planetarity, which denotes the understanding of Earth as a geological and socio-ecological entity at the planetary scale (Spivak 2003; Gilroy 2005). In so doing, this research corrects human- and Earth-centric assumptions, providing an alternative heuristics and integrating power into the analysis. I research SF literature from China to advance the concept of planetarity. The project has one main and three subsidiary objectives. Its main objective is to advance the concept of planetarity through the analysis of SF from China. The first objective is to innovate the theory of SF by combining and furthering the two literary theories Geocriticism and Ecocriticism. The second objective is to strengthen the analysis of power relations in SF through discourse analysis as methodology. The third objective is to render the concept of planetarity receptive to power through the analysis of SF from China. The project asks one main and two subsidiary research questions: How do post-Earth representations in SF from China advance the concept of planetarity? How does SF from China descriptively produce other-spaces? How does SF from China decentre and defamiliarise Earth? For its theoretical framework, the project combines Geocriticism and Ecocriticism as literary theories. The three concepts planetarity, heterotopia and post-Earth are mobilised for the literary analysis. Methodologically, the project makes use of discourse analysis. Empirical data consist of selected SF works from China and their reception in the country. The project choses one short story and three novels for analysis: ???? [The Wandering Earth] by Liu Cixin ???; ?? [Doomsyear] by He Xi ??; ???? [Return to Charon] by Hao Jingfang ???; and???? [The Ruins of Time] by Bao Shu ??. Further data collection entails a document search in online newspaper and news agency archives, literature review sites and internet fora. Data analysis will be carried out through theoretical and thematic coding aided by the software NVivo. The results of the project will be published as a peer-reviewed article in the journal Environmental Humanities and a special issue in the journal GeoHumanities. The project makes three major contributions. First, it innovates the theory of SF by drawing connections between political geography and literary theory for the analysis of knowledge, power and space in SF. Second, it revitalizes the geography of science fiction through theoretical and empirical insights on the planetary scale in SF, and reinforces the sub-field’s importance within the discipline for the analysis of pressing social and environmental issues. Third, it advances the social sciences of climate change by innovating theorisation of the planetary scale, thereby correcting human- and Earth-centric assumptions, providing an alternative heuristics and integrating power into the analysis. |
| 英文关键词 | Democracy; Information and communication technologies; Artificial intelligence; Digital technologies; ICT; Political participaton; Citizen participation; AI |
| 学科分类 | 0801 - 地理学;08 - 地球科学 |
| 资助机构 | CH-SNSF |
| 项目经费 | 99960 |
| 项目类型 | Project funding;Project funding (special) |
| 国家 | CH |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 文献类型 | 项目 |
| 条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/125584 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Bichsel Christine.Science, fiction and power: rethinking planetarity through post-Earth science fiction from China.2020. |
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