dystopia context

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the drowned world is seen as a

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founding text in eco dystopia

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octavia butler is accredited for her attention to

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race, gender and power within the genre

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John carey has described dystopia as

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merely a utopia from another point of view

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zamyatins we is influenced by

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life under soviet rule

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sci fi was heavily

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male dominated
some female writers used psydeoniums

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the 1940s are seen as the

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golden age of sci fi
dominated by white men

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Atwood distances her work from

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sci fi and calls it speculative

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fear for the future post ww2

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scale of suffering and death
atomic bomb
cold war

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1984 modelled a …. government against

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totalitarian government against stalinist Russia

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dystopia operates as a idea genre to explore

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results of gender oppression
exploration of Womens reproductive capacity

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often in gendered dystopia the privilege of

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reproduction is reserved for the wealthy and powerful
reflects new christian right

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gendered dystopias explore a possible future based on

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current gendered oppressions

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eco dystopia: destruction and suffering are caused by

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scientific intervention into humans lives

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recent dystopian novels include evidence of

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environmental damage as an inevitable part of our lives

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parable of the sower features a us setting where

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fresh water is at a premium

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despite dystopia being written for an adult audience, using young characters

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explore the impacts of social collapse on the young

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the victorian age was an era of

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substantial technologically process

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with the rise of industrialisation, capitalism

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became the dominant political and economic structure of the west

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the conflict between capitalist and socialist ideals

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became a central ideological conflict of the twentieth century

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the cuban missile crisis is seen as the closest the world has ever got to

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nuclear destruction

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nuclear conflict was seen in ‘how we got along

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after the bomb by Phillip k dick

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herbert Spencer argued that philanthropy aiding

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the poor was preventing social progress

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california performed 20,000

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sterilisation procedures without the knowledge of patients

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sterilisation programmes in the us targeted

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women of colour

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nazi regime sent disabled kids to special paediatric clinks

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where they were neglected or euthanised

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authoritarianism describes regime demanding

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complete obedient and no freedom

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it is politically expedient to designate an other

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on whom to place fear and blame

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the suspension of free press is

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one way to achieve cultural control with propoganda

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both Italy and Germany

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revised their school textbooks

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in spain, regional languages like

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Catalan were banned,