Affect, Eco-Anxiety and Youth

Monographs

2027

Xausa, Chiara. Eco-Anxiety and the Politics of Futurity in Contemporary Fiction. Under contract with Bloomsbury Academic for the ‘Environmental Cultures’ series. Forthcoming 2027.

Edited Works

Articles and Book Chapters

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Xausa, Chiara. “Learning to Live with Fire: Young Adult Fiction and Narratives of Climate Adaptation.” Oxford Intersections: Climate Adaptation (“Narratives of the Future” section), ed. By Kiu-wai Chu and Adeline Johns-Putra, forthcoming (journal article).

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Baccolini, Raffaella, Arianna Preite and Chiara Xausa. “The Affective Politics of Repair: Navigating the End of the World through Storytelling and Care in Lindsey Drager’s The Avian Hourglass.” In Feminist Ecological Citizenship, ed. by Dipanwita Pal, forthcoming (book chapter, invited).

2023

Xausa, Chiara. “Coming-of-Age as Ecocitizens in Young Adult Climate Fiction: Saci Lloyd’s The Carbon Diaries 2015 and 2017.” Ilha do Desterro: A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies 76 (2), pp. 295–312, 2023 (journal article).

2025

Xausa, Chiara. “‘Focused Anger’ and ‘Radical Hope’ in Young Adult Climate Fiction. An Affective Reading of Lauren James’s Green Rising.” In Narrating Multiplicities in Motion: The Transformative Power of Storytelling in Anglophone Cultures, ed. by Elena Ogliari Anna Pasolini and Carla Tempestoso, pp. 179–194, New York: Routledge, 2025 (book chapter).

2026

Xausa, Chiara. “Collective Narration and the Politicization of Climate Distress.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 2026 (journal article).
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