人类世之外的地理学：Ursula Le Guin的《为了生存而永远回家》

IF 1.6 3区社会学 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Cultural Geographies Pub Date : 2022-10-04 DOI:10.1177/14744740221126984

B. Garlick, Liesl King

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Ursula Le Guin的科幻小说巧妙地用散文描绘了在深刻动荡时期的另类世界、社会和自然文化。同样，她的作品充满了平静的希望：我们已经拥有了创造更好未来所需的工具，只要我们更好地关注此时此地就好了。在她的作品中，勒金提出了关于更广泛环境的价值以及我们与更广泛环境关系的政治和伦理问题；以及（可能）在我们当代的飞行路线上等待的后果。在《永远回家》（1985）中，她挖掘了一个可能的未来：一个对地球上生命的推测性文化地理，它在放置和照顾地方方面都很谨慎。在本文中，我们考虑了这个实验性的“未来考古学”的时空及其想象中的后人类世景观。我们探讨了勒金的非线性、离题、零碎的写作如何调动对地方的热爱（拓扑学），以表明人类世之后的生活存在着多重、潜在、情境化的表达，而人类世对我们当前生存模式的地球遗产存在着深刻的不确定性。

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A geography beyond the Anthropocene: Ursula Le Guin’s Always Coming Home as topophilia for survival

The science fiction of Ursula Le Guin deftly uses prose to conjure alternative worlds, societies and cultures of nature amidst times of profound upheaval. Equally, her writing is suffused with quiet hope: the sense that we already possess the tools required to craft better futures, if only we paid better attention to the here and now. Across her work, Le Guin poses political and ethical questions about the value of, and our relationship to, the wider environment; and the consequences that (may) lie in wait along our contemporary lines of flight. In Always Coming Home (1985), she excavates a possible future: a speculative cultural geography of life on earth that is both careful in its placing and caring of place. In this paper, we consider the space-times of this experimental ‘archaeology of the future’ and its imagined post-Anthropocene landscape. We explore how Le Guin’s non-linear, digressive, fragmentary writing mobilises the love of place (topophilia) to manifest an awareness of there being multiple, potential, situated articulations of life after the Anthropocene in tension with profound uncertainty over the earthly legacies of our current modes of existence.

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期刊介绍： Cultural Geographies has successfully built on Ecumene"s reputation for innovative, thoughtful and stylish contributions. This unique journal of cultural geographies will continue publishing scholarly research and provocative commentaries. The latest findings on the cultural appropriation and politics of: · Nature · Landscape · Environment · Place space The new look Cultural Geographies reflects the evolving nature of its subject matter. It is both a sub-disciplinary intervention and an interdisciplinary forum for the growing number of scholars or practitioners interested in the ways that people imagine, interpret, perform and transform their material and social environments.