Toward a Cultural Politics of Climate Change: Devices, Desires and Dissent

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Synopsis
Towards a Cultural Politics of Climate Change provides a new perspective on how climate change matters in policy-making, business and everyday life. It argues that the work of low carbon transitions takes place through the creation of devices, the mobilisation of desires, and the articulation of dissent. Using case studies from the US, Australia, and Europe, the book examines the creation and contestation of new forms of cultural politics - of how a climate-changed society is articulated, realized and contested. Through this approach it opens up questions about how, where and by whom climate politics is conducted and the ways in which we might respond differently to this societal challenge. This book provides a key reference point for the emerging academic community working on the cultural politics of climate change, and a means through which to engage this new area of research with the broader social sciences. Develops a new framework for analyzing the cultural politics of climate change, providing readers with a new perspective that bridges accounts of cultural responses to climate change and those which focus on its politics. Includes a range of international case studies which demonstrate the ways in which responses to climate change are being realized in everyday life, giving readers concrete examples from familiar areas of social and political life through which to interpret the new perspective. Provides a new approach to thinking about how climate change comes to matter in everyday life, for those seeking to look beyond 'individualist' approaches to understanding how society is responding to climate change.
Copyright:
2016

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
246 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781316784419
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
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Copyrighted By:
Cambridge University Press
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Earth Sciences, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Politics and Government
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Bookshare Staff
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