New York City in the Anthropocene: learning from fiction

This essay presents research based on the intuition that a work of fiction (in this case, Odds
Against Tomorrow, by Nathaniel Rich) can enrich the theoretical perspective on climate
change in management sciences. We propose the relevance of apocalyptic fiction to
decipher the reactions of different social groups to the events of the Anthropocene, and the
modalities of collective action that result from them. We challenge, with the help of a
qualitative coding methodology, the text of the post-apocalyptic fictional book with Hoffman
and Devereaux-Jennings' (2018) Anthropocene archetypes. This ongoing research is based
on an original methodology and produces creative writing; its results enrich the theory of
archetypes of the Anthropocene and reinforce its performativity.