Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities
- The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Climate Change/Changing Climates
- Chapter 2 The Commons
- Chapter 3 Rights
- Chapter 4 Time as Kinship
- Chapter 5 The Nature of Gender
- Chapter 6 Race, Health, and Environment
- Chapter 7 Narrative and Environmental Innovation
- Chapter 8 Climate Fictions: Future-Making Technologies
- Chapter 9 Apocalypse/Extinction
- Chapter 10 Multispecies
- Chapter 11 Food
- Chapter 12 Plants
- Chapter 13 Extraction
- Chapter 14 Ice/Water/Vapor
- Chapter 15 Rocks
- Chapter 16 Coal/Oil
- Chapter 17 Waste
- Chapter 18 Ecomedia
- Chapter 19 New Materialism and the Nonhuman Story
- Chapter 20 Risk
- Chapter 21 Coda: Virus
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To Literature
- References
Chapter 4 - Time as Kinship
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 August 2021
- The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities
- The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Climate Change/Changing Climates
- Chapter 2 The Commons
- Chapter 3 Rights
- Chapter 4 Time as Kinship
- Chapter 5 The Nature of Gender
- Chapter 6 Race, Health, and Environment
- Chapter 7 Narrative and Environmental Innovation
- Chapter 8 Climate Fictions: Future-Making Technologies
- Chapter 9 Apocalypse/Extinction
- Chapter 10 Multispecies
- Chapter 11 Food
- Chapter 12 Plants
- Chapter 13 Extraction
- Chapter 14 Ice/Water/Vapor
- Chapter 15 Rocks
- Chapter 16 Coal/Oil
- Chapter 17 Waste
- Chapter 18 Ecomedia
- Chapter 19 New Materialism and the Nonhuman Story
- Chapter 20 Risk
- Chapter 21 Coda: Virus
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To Literature
- References
Summary
Climate change is often discussed in terms of linear units of time. This chapter covers the meaning of linear time and its implications for how climate change is narrated. There are concerns about how narrating climate change in this way can eclipse issues of justice in the energy transition. There are of course different ways of telling time. This chapter provides a narration of climate change inspired by particular Indigenous scholars and writers. These conceptions of time narrate time through kinship, not linearity. One implication is that issues of justice are inseparable from the experience of climate change.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities , pp. 39 - 55Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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