Climate Change Narratives

Author : Annika Arnold
Publisher : Springer
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319693835

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Climate Change and Storytelling by Annika Arnold Pdf

Climate change is as much a cultural phenomenon as it is a natural one. This book is about those cultural patterns that surround our perception of the environmental crisis and which are embodied in the narratives told by climate change advocates. It investigates the themes and motifs in those narratives through the use of narrative theory and cultural sociology. Developing a framework for cultural narrative analysis, Climate Change and Storytelling draws on qualitative interviews with stakeholders, activists and politicians in the USA and Germany to identify motifs and the relationships between heroes, villains and victims, as told by the messengers of the narrative. This book will provide academics and practitioners with insights into the structure of climate change communication among climate advocates and the cultural fabric that informs it.

Author : Deepti Ganapathy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000509151

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Media and Climate Change by Deepti Ganapathy Pdf

This book looks at the media’s coverage of Climate Change and investigates its role in representing the complex realities of climate uncertainties and its effects on communities and the environment. This book explores the socioeconomic and cultural understanding of climate issues and the influence of environment communication via the news and the public response to it. It also examines the position of the media as a facilitator between scientists, policy makers and the public. Drawing extensively from case studies, personal interviews, comparative analysis of international climate coverage and a close reading of newspaper reports and archives, the author studies the pattern and frequency of climate coverage in the Indian media and their outcomes. With a special focus on the Western Ghats, the book discusses the political rhetoric, policy parameters and events that trigger a debate about development over biodiversity crisis and environmental risks in India. This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of environmental studies, especially Climate Change, media studies, public policy and South Asian studies, as well as conscientious citizens who deeply care for the environment.

Author : Raul P. Lejano,Shondel J. Nero
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780197542101

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The Power of Narrative by Raul P. Lejano,Shondel J. Nero Pdf

Introduction -- Ideology as narrative -- When skepticism became public -- Skeptics without borders -- Unpacking the genetic meta-narrative -- The social construction of climate science -- Ideological narratives and beyond in a post-truth world.

Author : Joe Smith,Renata Tyszczuk,Robert Butler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0955753430

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Culture and Climate Change by Joe Smith,Renata Tyszczuk,Robert Butler Pdf

Author : Anne Saab
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108473378

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Narratives of Hunger by Anne Saab Pdf

An examination of how international law fails to challenge fundamental assumptions and address practical issues of hunger and climate change.

Author : Rebecca L. Young
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781498594127

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Literature as a Lens for Climate Change by Rebecca L. Young Pdf

Each chapter in this collection offers a practical approach for using literature to engage and empower students to confront aspects of climate crises. Educators from different backgrounds and parts of the world share their experience using novels, short stories, drama, poetry, and nonfiction to help students understand the causes and consequences of climate change as well as how they can contribute to potential solutions.

Author : Raul P. Lejano,Shondel J. Nero
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780197542118

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The Power of Narrative by Raul P. Lejano,Shondel J. Nero Pdf

There is an ideological war of words waging in America, one that speaks to a new fundamentalism rising not just within the American public, but across other ideologically-torn nations around the globe as well. At its heart is climate skepticism, an ideological watershed that has become a core belief for millions of people despite a large scientific consensus supporting the science of anthropogenic climate change. While many scholars have examined the role of lobbyists and conservative think tanks in fueling the climate skepticism movement, there has not yet been a systematic analysis of why the narrative itself has resonated so powerfully with the public. Pulling from science and technology studies, narrative and discourse theory, and public policy, The Power of Narrative examines the strength of climate skepticism as a story, offering a thoughtful analysis and comparison of anti-climate science narratives over time and across geographic boundaries. This book provides fresh insight into the rhetorical and semantic properties on both sides of the climate change debate that preclude dialogue around climate science, and proposes a means for moving beyond ideological entrenchment through language mediation, further ethnographic study, and research-informed teaching. The Power of Narrative culminates in the revelation of a parallel between narratives about climate skepticism and those in other issue areas (e.g., gun rights, immigration, health crises), exposing a genetic meta-narrative of public distrust and isolation. Ultimately, The Power of Narrative is not a book about climate change in itself: it is, instead, a book about how our society understands and interacts with science, how a social narrative becomes ideology, and how we can move beyond personal and political dogma to arrive at a sense of collective rapprochement.

Author : Philip Smith,Nicolas Howe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107103559

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Climate Change as Social Drama by Philip Smith,Nicolas Howe Pdf

Climate Change as Social Drama looks at the cultural sociology of climate change in public communication.

Author : Nicole Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429878527

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Law, Fiction and Activism in a Time of Climate Change by Nicole Rogers Pdf

The book examines the narratives of climate change which have developed and which are currently evolving in three areas: law, fiction and activism. Narratives of climate change generated by litigants, judges, writers of fiction and activists are having, and will have, a profound effect on the way we respond to the climate change crisis. Acknowledging the prevalence of unreliable narrators, this book explores the reliability and significance of different forms of climate narrative. The author analyses overlapping themes and points of intersection, considering the recurrent motif of the trickster, the prominence of the child, the significance and ongoing viability of the rights discourse, and the increasingly prevalent emergency framing with its multiple implications for law’s empire. She asks how law, fiction and activism measure up as textual and performative fora for telling the story of climate change and anticipating a climate-changed future. And, in addition, how can they help foster transformative narratives which empower us to confront the climate change crisis? This highly topical, cross-disciplinary work will be of interest to anyone concerned about the growing climate emergency and makes a valuable contribution to climate law, environmental law, the environmental humanities and ecocriticism.

Author : Daniel Sherrell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525508052

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Warmth by Daniel Sherrell Pdf

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY THE NEW YORKER AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY “[Warmth] is lyrical and erudite, engaging with science, activism, and philosophy . . . [Sherrell] captures the complicated correspondence between hope and doubt, faith and despair—the pendulum of emotional states that defines our attitude toward the future.” —The New Yorker “Beautifully rendered and bracingly honest.” —Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing From a millennial climate activist, an exploration of how young people live in the shadow of catastrophe Warmth is a new kind of book about climate change: not what it is or how we solve it, but how it feels to imagine a future—and a family—under its weight. In a fiercely personal account written from inside the climate movement, Sherrell lays bare how the crisis is transforming our relationships to time, to hope, and to each other. At once a memoir, a love letter, and an electric work of criticism, Warmth goes to the heart of the defining question of our time: how do we go on in a world that may not?

Author : Daniel Briggs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000224030

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Climate Changed by Daniel Briggs Pdf

Climate Changed is an honest, humane account about the rapid downsizing of the world’s natural resources and the consequences this has for millions of people who, year after year, are displaced from their home countries because of politically-instigated and economically-justified war and conflict. Based on interviews with 110 refugees who arrived into Europe from 2015 to 2018 and observations of refugee camps, border crossings, inner-city slums, social housing projects, NGO and related refugee associations, this book offers a moving insight into the refugee experience of leaving home, crossing borders and settling in Europe. Briggs sets this against the geopolitical and commercial enterprise that dismantled refugees’ countries in the international chase for wilting quantities of the world’s natural resources. At every point of their journey to their new lives and in the resettlement process, the refugees are victimised and exploited, as there is always money to be made from them. Even if refugees’ labour is in demand, there is a European social climate of intolerance and stigma which jeopardises integration and counters their well-being and safety. The climate has changed. This book will appeal to students and scholars in core areas of sociology, environmental and sustainability studies, human geography, and politics. Policymakers, practitioners and voluntary workers within the sector of frontline immigration, as well as aid workers, town planners and welfare support staff, will also find this book of interest.

Author : Devi Lockwood
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781982146733

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1,001 Voices on Climate Change by Devi Lockwood Pdf

"A journalist travels the world to collect personal stories about how flood, fire, drought, and rising seas are changing communities"--

Author : James Painter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780857733856

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Climate Change in the Media by James Painter Pdf

Scientists and politicians are increasingly using the language of risk to describe the climate change challenge. Some researchers have argued that stressing the 'risks' posed by climate change rather than the 'uncertainties' can create a more helpful context for policy makers and a stronger response from the public. However, understanding the concepts of risk and uncertainty - and how to communicate them - is a hotly debated issue. In this book, James Painter analyses how the international media present these and other narratives surrounding climate change. He focuses on the coverage of reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and of the melting ice of the Arctic Sea, and includes six countries: Australia, France, India, Norway, the UK and the USA.

Author : Elin Kelsey
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781771647786

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Hope Matters by Elin Kelsey Pdf

“This book comes at just the right moment. It is NOT too late if we get together and take action, NOW.” —Jane Goodall Fears about climate change are fueling an epidemic of despair across the world: adults worry about their children’s future; thirty-somethings question whether they should have kids or not; and many young people honestly believe they have no future at all. In the face of extreme eco-anxiety, scholar and award-winning author Elin Kelsey argues that our hopelessness—while an understandable reaction—is hampering our ability to address the very real problems we face. Kelsey offers a powerful solution: hope itself. Hope Matters boldly breaks through the narrative of doom and gloom to show why evidence-based hope, not fear, is our most powerful tool for change. Kelsey shares real-life examples of positive climate news that reveal the power of our mindsets to shape reality, the resilience of nature, and the transformative possibilities of individual and collective action. And she demonstrates how we can build on positive trends to work toward a sustainable and just future, before it’s too late. Praise for Hope Matters “Whether you consider yourself a passionate ally of nature, a busy bystander, or anything in between, this book will uplift your spirits, helping you find hope in the face of climate crisis.” —Veronica Joyce Lin, North American Association for Environmental Education “30 Under 30” “A tonic in hard times.” —Claudia Dreyguis, author of Scientific Conversations: Interviews on Science from the New York Times “Beautifully written and an effective antidote against apathy and inaction.” —Christof Mauch, Director, Rachel Carson Center for the Environment and Society Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.

Author : Peggy Sax
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789087904500

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Re-authoring Teaching by Peggy Sax Pdf

Key phrases: blended learning, insider knowledge, online pedagogy, narrative therapy, postmodern pedagogy, practitioners and consumers, practitioner-training, public practices, reflective practitioner, students’ voices, teaching congruently, teacher-practitioner, therapeutic letters, teaching therapeutic practice.