{"title":"The Slow Apocalypse in The Low, Low Woods","authors":"Michael Fuchs, Anna Marta Marini","doi":"10.30687/el/2420-823x/2023/10/005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30687/el/2420-823x/2023/10/005","url":null,"abstract":"The comics series The Low, Low Woods is set in the fictional former coal‑mining town of Shudder‑to‑Think, Pennsylvania. While the mines have long been abandoned, their variegated effects, from poverty to environmental destruction, still haunt the region. This article suggests that The Low, Low Woods identifies a convergence between the exploitation of the natural world, a coal industry on the brink of collapse, and a fragile form of (white) hypermasculinity that promotes a violent and race‑ as well as class‑specific idea of local identity that two teenage, queer women from ethnic minority backgrounds begin to challenge.","PeriodicalId":517174,"journal":{"name":"10 | 2023\n Human Generations and the Environmental Crisis in Literature, Film, and Other Media","volume":"86 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139896577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Slow Apocalypse in The Low, Low Woods","authors":"Michael Fuchs, Anna Marta Marini","doi":"10.30687/el/2420-823x/2023/10/005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30687/el/2420-823x/2023/10/005","url":null,"abstract":"The comics series The Low, Low Woods is set in the fictional former coal‑mining town of Shudder‑to‑Think, Pennsylvania. While the mines have long been abandoned, their variegated effects, from poverty to environmental destruction, still haunt the region. This article suggests that The Low, Low Woods identifies a convergence between the exploitation of the natural world, a coal industry on the brink of collapse, and a fragile form of (white) hypermasculinity that promotes a violent and race‑ as well as class‑specific idea of local identity that two teenage, queer women from ethnic minority backgrounds begin to challenge.","PeriodicalId":517174,"journal":{"name":"10 | 2023\n Human Generations and the Environmental Crisis in Literature, Film, and Other Media","volume":"59 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139893567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Game Over for Climate Change?\u0000 Communicating and Visualising Global Warming in Digital Games","authors":"Carolin Becklas, Sabine Baumann","doi":"10.30687/el/2420-823x/2023/10/003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30687/el/2420-823x/2023/10/003","url":null,"abstract":"Digital games are increasingly used as innovative tools for climate change communication. Our study uses the example of Eco to analyse, with the help of a validated set of criteria, how commercial games communicate climate change and the science behind it, which options for action are suggested to the player and how the interplay of the three pillars of sustainability (environmental, social, and economic) is presented in the game. The paper’s conclusions underline the potential for commercial, multiplayer survival games like Eco to act as educational tools for communicating complex environmental issues, bridging diverse player demographics, and fostering a deeper understanding of the challenges and solutions in addressing climate change and ecological sustainability. Our findings help test and advance existing concepts in environmental communication studies and sustainability studies.","PeriodicalId":517174,"journal":{"name":"10 | 2023\n Human Generations and the Environmental Crisis in Literature, Film, and Other Media","volume":"100 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139896160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}