Worlds Ending. Ending Worlds: Understanding Apocalyptic Transformation

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2024

Worlds Ending. Ending Worlds

Understanding Apocalyptic Transformation

Edited by: Jenny Stümer and Michael Dunn
In collaboration with: David Eisler

Volume 1 in the series Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110787009

Overview
Contents

About this book

The notion of apocalypse is an age-old concept which has gained renewed interest in popular and scholarly discourse. The book highlights the versatile explications of apocalypse today, demonstrating that apocalyptic transformations – the various encounters with anthropogenic climate change, nuclear violence, polarized politics, colonial assault, and capitalist extractivism – navigate a range of interdisciplinary views on the present moment. Moving from old worlds to new worlds, from world-ending experiences to apocalyptic imaginaries and, finally, from authoritarianism to activism and advocacy, the contributions begin to map the emerging field of Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies. Foregrounding the myriad ways in which collective imaginations of apocalypse underpin ethical, political, and, sometimes, individual experience, the authors provide key points of reference for understanding old and new predicaments that are transforming our many worlds.

Author / Editor information

Jenny Stümer and Michael Dunn, Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Preface Robert Folger Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction: Understanding Apocalyptic Transformation Jenny Stümer Open Access Download PDF	1
Part 1: From Old Worlds to New Worlds
A Political Theology of the World That Ends Thomas Lynch Open Access Download PDF	21
A Godless Apocalypse and the Atom Bombs: Ronald Knox and a New Concept of World Ending Alastair Lockhart Open Access Download PDF	37
Remembering John Ball: Rethinking the Transformation from Old Worlds to New James Crossley Open Access Download PDF	57
Part 2: World Ending Experiences
New World and the End of the World: Apocalyptic Cartographies of the Conquest Paolo Vignolo Open Access Download PDF	77
Mapping Space and Time in Apocalyptic Representations in Latin American Colonial Art Patricia Zalamea Open Access Download PDF	97
Restitutive Writings of Worlds at the Southern Confine of the World Alejandra Bottinelli Wolleter Open Access Download PDF	115
Part 3: Apocalyptic Imaginaries
The Infrastructure of the Planets of the Apes Christian Long Open Access Download PDF	139
Pralaya: Competing Apocalypses and Dystopias in Contemporary Indian Science-Fiction Jaideep Unudurti Open Access Download PDF	157
Part 4: Action, Activism, Advocacy
The Cross and the Pink Shotgun: Apocalypse and the Antifeminist Movement in Bolsonaro’s Brazil Bruna Della Torre Open Access Download PDF	187
World without Humans, Humans without World: Apocalyptic Passions in the Anthropocene Julia Grillmayr and Christine Hentschel Open Access Download PDF	209
The Wheelchair and the Whale: Disability and the End of the World Dan Holloway Open Access Download PDF	227
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	243
Index Open Access Download PDF	247

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Scholars of political studies, religious studies, sociology and anthropology
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 250
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 8
Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; climate change; apocalyptic transformation; conceptualisation

eBook

Published: December 4, 2023
ISBN: 9783110787009

Hardcover

Published: December 4, 2023
ISBN: 9783110786521