Climate Change and Body Narrative: Focusing on Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower
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This paper adopts Judith Butler's theory of precarity, the condition in which vulnerability is differentially distributed across race, class, and gender through political and economic power relations, to demonstrate that climate change is not a disaster affecting all equally but rather an inequitable catastrophe that amplifies existing hierarchies. Through an analysis of Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower (1993), this study examines how climate and environmental crisis becomes violence mediated through concrete human bodies. Specifically, it traces how water commodification deepens class stratification, how forced displacement exposes refugee populations to systematic violence and deprivation, and how environmental collapse intensifies patriarchal control over women's bodies, sexuality, and reproduction. Furthermore, through Lauren Olamina's hyperempathy syndrome, which forces her to physically feel others’ pain, and the Earthseed community built upon recognition of shared vulnerability, this paper analyzes how recognition of bodily interdependence operates as a principle for ethical reflection and alternative community formation amid a climate catastrophe.
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This paper adopts Judith Butler's theory of precarity, the condition in which vulnerability is differentially distributed across race, class, and gender through political and economic power relations, to demonstrate that climate change is not a disaster affecting all equally but rather an inequitable catastrophe that amplifies existing hierarchies. Through an analysis of Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower (1993), this study examines how climate and environmental crisis becomes violence mediated through concrete human bodies. Specifically, it traces how water commodification deepens class stratification, how forced displacement exposes refugee populations to systematic violence and deprivation, and how environmental collapse intensifies patriarchal control over women's bodies, sexuality, and reproduction. Furthermore, through Lauren Olamina's hyperempathy syndrome, which forces her to physically feel others’ pain, and the Earthseed community built upon recognition of shared vulnerability, this paper analyzes how recognition of bodily interdependence operates as a principle for ethical reflection and alternative community formation amid a climate catastrophe.