In: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
Published online: 24 November 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.17.08riq
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.17.08riq
Article outline
- Arctic utopia and dystopia
- Beyond apocalypse: Cold Earth as climate change dystopia
- Arctopias from Greenland: From Cold Earth to Allatta! 2040
- Conclusion
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