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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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Ⅰ. Introduction
Ⅱ. Precarity, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Embodiment
Ⅲ. Embodied Precarity in Parable of the Sower
Ⅳ. From Hyperempathy to Earthseed: Bodily Vulnerability as Ethical Foundation
Ⅴ. Conclusion
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• YeonJeong Kim [ Lecture Professor, Incheon National University ]

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  영어영문학21 [English21]

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  1738-4052

• 수록기간

  1967~2025

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  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 820