Forecasts
A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster
$44.75
- Paperback
232 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2023
Summary
This collaborative graphic novel explores issues of capitalism and climate change in Paraguay, raising questions about the limits of survival for humans, their food crops, and rural ways of life.
Based in the agrarian world of commercial sesame farming in northern Paraguay, Forecasts tells a story about what happens when global insurance companies promise financial safety nets to local farmers struggling with the effects of climate change. This striking graph…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781487542238 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1487542232 |
| Author: | Caroline Schuster, Enrique Bernardou, David Bueno |
| Publisher: | University of Toronto Press |
| Imprint: | University of Toronto Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2023 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 178mm x 254mm |
| Series: | EthnoGRAPHIC |
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Critics Review
“With its stunning graphics, moving storytelling, and lucid unpacking of the complex financial instruments shaping the present and future of sesame farmers in Paraguay, Forecasts opens new pathways to understanding - and hopefully transcending - the climate catastrophe in which we are all entangled.”
–Julia Elyachar, Princeton University“Darkly serious, wittily executed, and beguilingly illustrated, Schuster and her colleagues zero in on the predictions of those who would profit from the ongoing climate disaster and the lives of those caught up in the wake of increasingly extreme weather. Farmers come to life alongside techno-utopian entrepreneurs as we see, hear, and sense what the intertwining of climate change and finance means for remote Paraguay, and for an increasingly unimaginable planet.”
–Bill Maurer, University of California, Irvine” Forecasts deftly introduces readers to the visual iconography of Paraguay and the complexity of global climate finance. The book is brought together by fine storytelling, from Schuster’s writing to Bernardou and Bueno’s illustrations to the ethnographic heart of the work.. Their stories offer both humor and a robust analysis of daily life at the edge of global forces, teasing the line between possible worlds.”
–Christine Folch, Duke UniversityCaroline Schuster
Caroline E. Schuster is an associate professor in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University.
Enrique Bernardou is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Paraguay.
David Bueno is a graphic designer based in Paraguay.
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