Touch: making contact with climate change

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Title Touch: making contact with climate change
Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Humanities
Department English
Author Cromwell, Benjamin Paul Burke
Date 2011-08
Description In this work, I deal with the question of how one ought to live and raise children in the context; of environmental catastrophe. I tell several stories about my experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer in The Republic of Kiribati and about the process of becoming a father. I find that while disasters like climate change are too far advanced for human beings to avoid some very disturbing consequences, we can, through storytelling, deal with those losses by making sure they are not forgotten. I conclude that personal stories about fear, loss, tragedy and hope are part of the process of healing wounds inflicted by tragedy and that it is imperative that these stories be passed on to younger generations lest they lose their capacity for empathy.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Change; Climate; Global warming; Kiribati; Narrative; Personal
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name Master of Arts
Language eng
Rights Management Copyright © Benjamin Paul Burke Cromwell 2011
Format application/pdf
Format Medium application/pdf
Format Extent 555,784 bytes
Identifier us-etd3,38139
Source original in Marriott Library Special Collections ; GF7.5 2011 .C76
ARK ark:/87278/s6hm5q56
Setname ir_etd
ID 194504
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6hm5q56
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