Climate change arctopias in Cold Earth and Allatta! 2040: Frozen futures or tropical Greenland?

Riquet, Johannes

doi:10.1075/fillm.17.08riq

Part of

Nordic Utopias and Dystopias: From Aniara to Allatta!
Edited by Pia Maria Ahlbäck, Jouni Teittinen and Maria Lassén-Seger
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 17] 2022
► pp. 131–152

Frozen futures or tropical Greenland?

Climate change arctopias in Cold Earth and Allatta! 2040

Johannes Riquet | Tampere University

Article outline

Arctic utopia and dystopia
Beyond apocalypse: Cold Earth as climate change dystopia
Arctopias from Greenland: From Cold Earth to Allatta! 2040
Conclusion
Notes
References

Published online: 24 November 2022

https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.17.08riq

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