Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-242) and index.
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Introduction: Sense of place and sense of planet -- Part I: World wide webs : imagining the planet. From the Blue Planet to Google Earth : environmentalism, ecocriticism, and the imagination of the global ; Among the everywheres : global crowds and the networked planet ; Adventures in the global Amazon -- Part II: Planet at risk. Narrative in the world risk society ; Toxic bodies, corporate poisons : local risks and global systems ; Afterglow : Chernobyl and the everyday -- Conclusion: Some like it hot : climate change and eco-cosmopolitanism.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Examines the connections between environmentalism/ecocriticism and theories of globalization and cosmopolitanism on the one hand and risk theory (especially Ulrich Beck's theory of the "risk society") on the other." -- Publisher's website