Global warming in local discourses how communities around the world make sense of climate change

Local discourses around the world draw on multiple resources tomake sense of a “travelling idea” such as climate change, includingdirect experiences of extreme weather, mediated reports, educationalNGO activities, and pre-existing values and belief systems. There is nosimple link between scientific...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Brüggemann, Michael, editor (editor), Rödder, Simone, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers 2020.
Colección:Global communications ; volume 1.
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Sumario:Local discourses around the world draw on multiple resources tomake sense of a “travelling idea” such as climate change, includingdirect experiences of extreme weather, mediated reports, educationalNGO activities, and pre-existing values and belief systems. There is nosimple link between scientific literacy, climate-change awareness, and asustainable lifestyle, but complex entanglements of transnational andlocal discourses and of scientific and other (religious, moral etc.) ways ofmaking sense of climate change. As the case studies in this volume show,this entanglement of ways of sense-making results in both localizationsof transnational discourses and the climatization of local discourses:aspects of the travelling idea of climate change are well-received,integrated, transformed, or rejected. Our comparison reveals a majorfactor that shapes the local appropriation of the concept of anthropogenicclimate change: the fit of prior local interpretations, norms and practiceswith travelling ideas influences whether they are likely to be embracedor rejected.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (289 pages)
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Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.