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Nicole Seymour

Nicole Seymour is an associate professor of English and affiliated faculty in Environmental Studies and Queer Studies at California State University, Fullerton. She is the author of Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination (University of Illinois Press, 2013) and Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age (University of Minnesota Press, 2018). icon

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Public Thinker: Jenny Price on Refusing to Save the Planet

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“First: Why are we not making more progress? Second: Why do so many people hate environmentalists?”

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Quick! Name an important fiction film of the Great Recession. The Big Short? Yes, surprisingly fun, considering the topic. Margin Call? Love it, except for the ...

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