Cecile Pineda: Climate Activist

Louise Stoehr examines how Pineda’s style crossing boundaries, academic disciplines and literary genres gives her an (un)disciplined place in the climate activist movement. Pineda’s first non-fiction publication,... [ view full abstract ]

Louise Stoehr examines how Pineda’s style crossing boundaries, academic disciplines and literary genres gives her an (un)disciplined place in the climate activist movement. Pineda’s first non-fiction publication, Devils’s Tango: How I Learned the Fukushima Step by Step, takes the reader on a personal journey as Pineda uncovers uncomfortable truths about the nuclear power and weapons industries, simultaneously reflecting on the nature of human beings and why we would not only unleash this power but continue to support an industry that most certainly means death for life on Earth. Her most recent book of non-fiction, Apology to a Whale: Words to Mend a World, considers research from linguistics, anthropology and archaeology, biology, cognitive science, and history in an attempt to understand how we have created a system so unsustainable and out of sync with nature that we are headed for climate catastrophe.

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