TY - BOOK ID - 7834373 TI - Nerd ecology : defending the earth with unpopular culture PY - 2016 SN - 147421973X 147256765X 1472567641 1472567633 1350066893 9781472567635 9781472567642 9781472567659 9781474219730 PB - New York : Bloomsbury Academic, DB - UniCat KW - Ecocriticism. KW - Science fiction. KW - Science fiction fans. KW - Ecology. KW - Balance of nature KW - Biology KW - Bionomics KW - Ecological processes KW - Ecological science KW - Ecological sciences KW - Environment KW - Environmental biology KW - Oecology KW - Science KW - Science stories KW - Ecological literary criticism KW - Environmental literary criticism KW - Ecology KW - Environmental sciences KW - Population biology KW - Fans (Persons) KW - Fiction KW - Future, The, in literature KW - Criticism KW - Human ecology. KW - Social ecology. KW - Popular culture. KW - Subculture. KW - Environmental sociology. KW - Ecology in literature. KW - Environmentalism in mass media. KW - Internet and environmentalism. KW - Culture, Popular KW - Mass culture KW - Pop culture KW - Popular arts KW - Communication KW - Intellectual life KW - Mass society KW - Recreation KW - Culture KW - Environmentalism and the Internet KW - Environmentalism KW - Mass media KW - Environment, Human KW - Human beings KW - Human environment KW - Ecological engineering KW - Human geography KW - Nature KW - Social aspects KW - Effect of environment on KW - Effect of human beings on UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7834373 AB - "Drawing on a wide range of examples from literature, comics, film, television and digital media, Nerd Ecology is the first substantial ecocritical study of nerd culture's engagement with environmental issues. Exploring such works as Star Trek, Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly, the fiction of Thomas Pynchon, The Hunger Games, and superhero comics such as Green Lantern and X-Men, Anthony Lioi maps out the development of nerd culture and its intersections with the most fundamental ecocritical themes. In this way Lioi finds in the narratives of unpopular culture - narratives in which marginalised individuals and communities unite to save the planet - the building blocks of a new environmental politics in tune with the concerns of contemporary ecocritical theory and practice."--Bloomsbury Publishing. ER -