RT Journal Article
T1 Representations of Human and Environmental Vulnerability in North American Literature.
A1 Chapman, Ana María
A1 Bennett, Lucía
K1 Literatura norteamericana
K1 FIlosofía
AB Since the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center somberlyinaugurated the new millennium, critical discourses on trauma,grieving and vulnerability have gained relevance in the academicsphere. The global dimension of these events was however based ontheir mediatic repercussions worldwide, rather than on the actualphysical impact that they had on the world population. Throughoutthe following two decades of the twenty-first century, intersectingenvironmental, economic and technological developments intoglobalization are revealing a heightened awareness of a similarly globalvulnerability that visibilize embodied forms of ongoing trauma, publicgrieving and structural oppression of precarious life forms andenvironmental conditions. These stand against the backdrop of theFourth Industrial Revolution (4th IR), which is ambiguously putforward as either the origin or solution of this situation. The last twoyears of pandemic have intensified the interdependence of virtualconnection and social alienation/exclusion relating techno-digitalhyperconnectedness and embodied forms of existence, giving a newsense to the concept of “risk society” developed at the turn of thecentury (Beck 1992; Giddens 1998). This special issue critically explores the forms of human andenvironmental vulnerabilities that are generated in the context of the4th IR, including vulnerable forms of human and non -humanintersubjectivity such as online embodied (onlife) interfaces or“inforgs” (Maynard 2015), precarious life and working conditionsresulting from the global dimension of the 4th IR, environmental forms of vulnerability in the 4th IR, the role of the pandemic in raisingawareness about global vulnerability, or the hierarchicalnaturecultures (Haraway 2003) emerging from transhumanist ethics.
PB Editorial Universidad de Sevilla
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33647
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33647
LA eng
NO Chapman, A., and L. Bennett. “SPECIAL SECTION ON REPRESENTATIONS OF HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL VULNERABILITY IN NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE”. Revista De Estudios Norteamericanos, vol. 26, Dec. 2022, https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/ESTUDIOS_NORTEAMERICANOS/article/view/22961.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026