Thesis
Planetary Caring Politics in the Chthulucene
Washington State University
Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
05/2024
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000006920
Abstract
In a context of rapidly increasing connections around the globe, Ursula Heise claims that “what is crucial for ecological awareness and environmental ethics is arguably not so a much a sense of place but a sense of planet,” or “a sense of how political, economic, technological, social, cultural, and ecological networks shape daily routines” (Sense 55). In this thesis, I develop the concept of a planetary caring politics, a material-discursive practice that considers how systems and structures such as heteropatriarchy, the nuclear family, racial capitalism, colonialism, and technology intersect and consequently shape the situated knowledges that inform how we conceptualize and practice care, and for whom we conceptualize and practice care. I offer interdisciplinary readings of selected literary texts to analyze their representations of planetary caring politics, as well as how these texts function on a narratological plane to shape how the reader understands the role of planetary caring politics in their own life.
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- Title
- Planetary Caring Politics in the Chthulucene
- Creators
- Anna R. Bushy
- Contributors
- Pamela Thoma (Chair)Jon Hegglund (Committee Member)Donna Potts (Committee Member)Linda Russo (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Department of English
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 63
- Identifiers
- 99901125239901842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis