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All Mutual Aid is Speculative Fiction: Critical Fabulation and its Role in Achieving Abolition
(2021) Alvarez, Adaylin; Rivera-Dundas, Adena
Through the practice of critical fabulation, authors of speculative fiction can practice mutual aid with the goal of achieving abolition. Critical fabulation within speculative fiction allows authors to use their imagine to create worlds free of prisons, war, and capitalism. Both critical fabulation and speculative fiction, in practicing mutual aid, then become tools that work within the confines of and against the white supremacist, colonial archive, the prison industrial complex, and the non-profit industrial complex—those tools help authors and readers imagine a world of abolition. Through a literary analysis of Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, this paper aims to find instances of mutual aid within those works of speculative fiction in order to prove that all mutual aid is speculative fiction. The combination of Adaylin’s personal experiences in practicing mutual aid and her literary analysis of works of speculative fiction then allows her to describe her process in applying both to write her own speculative fiction story.
AMS :: ATX December 2011 Blog Archive
(2011-12) Department of American Studies
AMS :: ATX is a blog dedicated to representing the many activities and interests of the department of American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Together with the department’s Twitter feed, this blog exists to serve the AMS and Austin communities by acting as a hub for up-to-date information on events and opportunities at UT and beyond. This archive includes the following blog posts: Grad Research: The Archive of Childhood (December 1, 2011); Grad Research: The End of Austin, a Collaborative Documentary Project (December 5, 2011); List: 7 Films from 2011 that American Studies Scholars Should See (December 12, 2011).
AMS :: ATX February 2012 Blog Archive
(2012-02) Department of American Studies
AMS :: ATX is a blog dedicated to representing the many activities and interests of the department of American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Together with the department’s Twitter feed, this blog exists to serve the AMS and Austin communities by acting as a hub for up-to-date information on events and opportunities at UT and beyond. This archive includes the following blog posts: Faculty Research: Dr. Randy Lewis on Unplugging at Flow (February 1, 2012); Grad Research: Bombs and Belvederes (February 8, 2012); Undergrad Research: A Trip to the Archives in NYC (February 15, 2012); Undergrad Research: A Trip to the Archives in NYC, Part 2 (February 16, 2012); 5 Takes on Women and Bicycles (February 23, 2012); Explore American Studies at Explore UT! (February 29, 2012).
Atmospheric Impacts on Climatic Variability of Surface Incident Solar Radiation
(2012) Wang, K. C.; Dickinson, R. E.; Wild, M.; Liang, S.; Dickinson, R. E.
The Earth's climate is driven by surface incident solar radiation (R-s). Direct measurements have shown that R-s has undergone significant decadal variations. However, a large fraction of the global land surface is not covered by these observations. Satellite-derived R-s has a good global coverage but is of low accuracy in its depiction of decadal variability. This paper shows that daily to decadal variations of R-s, from both aerosols and cloud properties, can be accurately estimated using globally available measurements of Sunshine Duration (SunDu). In particular, SunDu shows that since the late 1980's R-s has brightened over Europe due to decreases in aerosols but dimmed over China due to their increases. We found that variation of cloud cover determines R-s at a monthly scale but that aerosols determine the variability of R-s at a decadal time scale, in particular, over Europe and China. Because of its global availability and long-term history, SunDu can provide an accurate and continuous proxy record of R-s, filling in values for the blank areas that are not covered by direct measurements. Compared to its direct measurement, R-s from SunDu appears to be less sensitive to instrument replacement and calibration, and shows that the widely reported sharp increase in R-s during the early 1990s in China was a result of instrument replacement. By merging direct measurements collected by Global Energy Budget Archive with those derived from SunDu, we obtained a good coverage of R-s over the Northern Hemisphere. From this data, the average increase of R-s from 1982 to 2008 is estimated to be 0.87W m(-2) per decade.