TY - JOUR ID - 61716 TI - The Neoliberal Nostrum: Spatial Fix in Ian McEwan’s Solar JO - Critical Literary Studies JA - CLS LA - en SN - 2676-699X AU - Marandi, Seyed Mohammad AU - Ramin, Zohreh AU - Shabanpour, Mohammad Bagher AD - Professor of English Literature, University of Tehran, Iran AD - Assistant Professor of English Literature, University of Tehran, Iran AD - PhD Candidate of English Literature, University of Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2021 PY - 2021 VL - 3 IS - 1 SP - 37 EP - 53 KW - built environment KW - Climate Change KW - Capitalism KW - Spatial Fix KW - Neo-liberalism DO - 10.34785/J014.2021.743 N2 - Ian McEwan’s Solar has been the subject of many a debate, mostly due to its controversial representation of climate change’s cause and the solution offered for the global disaster. The paper explores the novel’s judgment over climate change’s fountainhead and the protagonist’s vain project to save the earth. The scope of the study encompasses the narrator’s accounts of the characters and events in the story. In the light of David Harvey’s notion of ‘spatial fix,’ the study, through a close reading of the novel, focuses on the context within which the story unfolds in order to elaborate on the transformation of the earth into a globalized monolithic built environment called ‘the planet’ for the sake of efficiency and free flow of capital and commodities. It also argues that the protagonist’s solar energy generation project is a neo-liberal initiative to replace a less lucrative production mode and tackle the system’s critical spell of overaccumulation, rather than global warming. UR - https://cls.uok.ac.ir/article_61716.html L1 - https://cls.uok.ac.ir/article_61716_4af621ea7762fb952b3c8622b1c76aee.pdf ER -