The Future as an Underwater World

A Dream Comic

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/2292-4736/40334

Keywords:

climate change, dreams, oceans, comic

Abstract

The climate crisis is high in all levels of our sub/un/consciousness. As flash flooding and sea level rising around the world occupy the headlines while a pandemic is still raging, a nocturnal dream in January 2021 inspired this comic. In ink pen and watercolour, the comic depicts a dream of a future where humans have survived and cities are built underwater, where all the human world is submerged. Offering dreaming as method, Tanana Athabascan scholar Dian Million (2011) explains how dreaming and theory are not exclusive of each other. Like Million (2011), dreamings for me have ‘led to further searches for meaning’. What are the teachings of our dreams? [...]

Author Biography

Mengzhu Fu, York University

Mengzhu Fu is a doctoral student in the Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies at York University. Their MA research focused on the lifeworlds of young Asian survivors of domestic violence in Aotearoa (New Zealand) through an analysis of structural violence, age and intersectionality. They have been involved in diasporic Asian activism on gender-based violence, migrant justice, anti-racism and building Asian support for Māori sovereignty. Their PhD topic is on Chinese diasporic solidarity with Indigenous sovereignty movements in Aotearoa and Canada-occupied Turtle Island.

References

Alook, A., Eaton, E., Grey-Donald, D., Laforest, J., Lameman, C., & Tucker, B. (2023). The end of this world: Climate justice in so-called Canada. Between the Lines.

Million, D. (2011). Intense dreaming: Theories, narratives, and our search for home. American Indian Quarterly, 35(3), 313–33. https://doi.org/10.1353/aiq.2011.a447049 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aiq.2011.a447049

Wong, R. (2015). Perpetual. Harbour Publishing.

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Published

2025-02-24

How to Cite

Fu, M. (2025). The Future as an Underwater World: A Dream Comic. UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies, 22, 93–95. https://doi.org/10.25071/2292-4736/40334

Issue

Vol. 22 (2025): Below

Section

Creative

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