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Nordic Utopias and Dystopias: From Aniara to Allatta!
Edited by Pia Maria Ahlbäck, Jouni Teittinen and Maria Lassén-Seger
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 17] 2022
► pp. 131–152

Frozen futures or tropical Greenland?

Climate change arctopias in Cold Earth and Allatta! 2040

| Tampere University
Article outline
  • Arctic utopia and dystopia
  • Beyond apocalypse: Cold Earth as climate change dystopia
  • Arctopias from Greenland: From Cold Earth to Allatta! 2040
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 24 November 2022
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