Storytelling like that of Ursula K. Le Guin or Hayao Miyazaki reveals how real-world politics is similarly an act of collective “world building.”

Brent Ryan Bellamy
Brent Ryan Bellamy is an instructor in the English and cultural studies departments at Trent University and is coeditor of An Ecotopian Lexicon (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) and Materialism and the Critique of Energy (MCM, 2018). His book Remainders of the American Century: Post-Apocalyptic Novels in the Age of US Decline (Wesleyan University Press) will be available June 2021.