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• Anthropocene>>concept of posthumanism in the Anthropocene>>posthumanism and travel in Borne
• Climate change and weather>>changing ontological relationship between humans and weather events>>class and the desert in Mad Max: Fury Road
• Dystopias and women>>experience of motherhood in dystopian science fiction>>the alteration of the concept of dystopia in Find Me

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I am studying _______ because I want to find out _______.

I am studying trauma and loss in dystopian films because I want to examine how grief, when collectively felt, alters our relationships to each other.

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I am studying trauma and loss in dystopian eco-science fictions

         (indirect) because I want to examine how grief, when                   collectively felt, alters our relationships to each other

                  (motivating) in order to discuss how grief and trauma can be used in the Anthropocene to affect change in our relationship to climate and environment.

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