Alison E. Vogelaar is Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Franklin University Switzerland, and co-editor of Changing Representations of Nature and the City: The 1960s-1970s and their Legacies (with Gabriel Lee, Routledge 2018). Brack W. Hale is Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Science at Franklin University Switzerland, where he is co-director of the Center for Sustainability Initiatives. Alexandra Peat is Associate Professor of Literature at Franklin University Switzerland, and author of Travel and Modernist Literature: Sacred and Ethical Journeys (Routledge, 2011).

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• Lists of figuresList of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1: ‘Doc’ CollapseChapter 1: Culture and collapse: Theses on catastrophic history for the 21st centuryMichael EganChapter 2: Are dead zones dead? Environmental collapse in popular media about eutrophication in sea-based systems.Jesse PetersonChapter 3: Can photojournalism steer clear of the siren song of collapse?Joanna NurmisChapter 4: Environmental collapse in comics: Reflections on Philippe Squarzoni’s Saison bruneAnn GardinerPart II: ‘Pop’ CollapseChapter 5: This is the end of the world as we know it: Narratives of collapse and transformation in archaeology and popular cultureGuy D. MiddletonChapter 6: Survive, thrive, or perish: Environmental collapse in post-apocalyptic digital gamesJennifer EnglandChapter 7: Zooming out, closing in: Ecology at the end of the frontierAlison E. Vogelaar and Brack HalePart III: ‘Craft’ CollapseChapter 8: Imagining the apocalypse: Valences of collapse in McCarthy, Burtynsky and GoldsworthyI. J. MacRaeChapter 9: ‘Something akin to what’s killing bees’: The poetry of colony collapse disorder Matthew GriffithsChapter 10: Salvaging the fragments: Metaphors for collapse in Virginia Woolf and Station ElevenAlexandra Peat

Alison E. Vogelaar is Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Franklin University Switzerland, and co-editor of Changing Representations of Nature and the City: The 1960s-1970s and their Legacies (with Gabriel Lee, Routledge 2018). Brack W. Hale is Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Science at Franklin University Switzerland, where he is co-director of the Center for Sustainability Initiatives. Alexandra Peat is Associate Professor of Literature at Franklin University Switzerland, and author of Travel and Modernist Literature: Sacred and Ethical Journeys (Routledge, 2011).

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• Lists of figuresList of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1: ‘Doc’ CollapseChapter 1: Culture and collapse: Theses on catastrophic history for the 21st centuryMichael EganChapter 2: Are dead zones dead? Environmental collapse in popular media about eutrophication in sea-based systems.Jesse PetersonChapter 3: Can photojournalism steer clear of the siren song of collapse?Joanna NurmisChapter 4: Environmental collapse in comics: Reflections on Philippe Squarzoni’s Saison bruneAnn GardinerPart II: ‘Pop’ CollapseChapter 5: This is the end of the world as we know it: Narratives of collapse and transformation in archaeology and popular cultureGuy D. MiddletonChapter 6: Survive, thrive, or perish: Environmental collapse in post-apocalyptic digital gamesJennifer EnglandChapter 7: Zooming out, closing in: Ecology at the end of the frontierAlison E. Vogelaar and Brack HalePart III: ‘Craft’ CollapseChapter 8: Imagining the apocalypse: Valences of collapse in McCarthy, Burtynsky and GoldsworthyI. J. MacRaeChapter 9: ‘Something akin to what’s killing bees’: The poetry of colony collapse disorder Matthew GriffithsChapter 10: Salvaging the fragments: Metaphors for collapse in Virginia Woolf and Station ElevenAlexandra Peat