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Amitav Ghosh: The Great Derangement (Hardcover, 2016, University of Chicago Press)

"Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well …

The Great Derangement

This was very interesting to read and definitely gave me a lot to think about. I liked the focus on how fiction is unable to speak about the climate crisis meaningfully, and the emphasis on power relations (and disparities) apart from pure economical ones, later on. The comparison between the texts of the Paris Agreement and Pope Francis's Laudato Si was genius.