Mediating climate change
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Mediating climate change
（Environmental sociology）
Ashgate, c2011
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-175) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Climate change has been a significant area of scientific concern since the late 1970s, but has only recently entered mainstream culture and politics. However, as media coverage of climate change increases in the twenty-first century, the gap between our understanding of climate change and climate action appears to widen. In this timely book, Julie Doyle explores how practices of mediation and visualisation shape how we think about, address and act upon climate change. Through historical and contemporary case studies drawn from science, media, politics and culture, Mediating Climate Change identifies the representational problems climate change poses for public and political debate. It offers ways forward by exploring how climate change can be made more meaningful through, for example, innovative forms of climate activism, the reframing of meat and dairy consumption, media engagement with climate events and science, and artistic experimentation. Doyle argues that cultural discourses have problematically situated nature and the environment as objects externalised from humans and culture. Mediating Climate Change calls for a more nuanced understanding of human-environmental relations, in order for us to be able to more fully imagine and address the challenges climate change poses for us all.
Table of Contents
- Making Climate Change Meaningful
- Part I Historicising/Theorising Climate Change
- Chapter 1 Problematising Science and Environment
- Chapter 2 Visualising Climate Change
- Chapter 3 Coda
- Part II Mediating/Addressing Climate Change
- Chapter 4 An Emerging Climate Movement
- Chapter 5 Mediating Copenhagen
- Chapter 6 Sustainable Consumption?
- Chapter 7 Imaginative Engagements
- Chapter 101 Epilogue Positive Action in a Changing Climate
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