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Climate Change Politics - Communication and Public Engagement (Hardcover, New)
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Climate Change Politics - Communication and Public Engagement (Hardcover, New)
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Climate Change Politics offers a critical, yet hopeful examination
of political vitality in the politics of climate change and
discusses how people use various forms of communication to
challenge existing power hierarchies. Because the meanings of
climate change and of the numerous aspects of reality associated
with it are constructed through communication, we offer an analysis
of communication practices and structures as constitutive of
climate change politics. A broad variety of case studies
demonstrate how the choices made within various forms of public
engagement result from social interaction based on communication.
The editors of the volume follow Chantal Mouffe in describing "the
political" as engagement with processes of debate and decision
making on collective issues where different values, preferences,
and ideals are played out and opposed. This book examines
communication as a key component of climate change politics and
shows how climate change communication has the potential to
invigorate civic politics. It analyzes how citizens represent,
construct, and circulate ideas about climate change and how these
practices relate to decisions and public policies, as well as to
political identities. Contributing authors explore how changes in
the ways information is produced and consumed have contributed to
new spaces for political engagement. They analyze a range of
semiotic resources and practices within which the meanings of
climate change are negotiated. By looking at the multiple ways
people experience and communicate about climate change, the
analysis extends beyond the cognitive to include emotional,
aesthetic, and other epistemologies that shape political engagement
with this issue. Individual chapters examine various forms of
climate change communication, including artistic expression ranging
from installations to cinema, on web-based spaces, and on other
alternative media. Working from the premise that communicative
practices provide the basis for broad public engagement, this book
identifies and examines how the possibilities entailed in that
engagement may yet contribute to a transformation of climate change
politics that empowers both individual political subjects and their
communities. Climate Change Politics is likely to be of interest to
a variety of audiences including researchers and students of
climate change politics, environmental communication, and social
movements in disciplines such as communication, geography,
political science, and sociology. The book is suitable as a
textbook for both advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on
climate change and society; environmental communication; and
science, technology, and society.
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