Discourses of Global Climate Change - Apocalyptic framing and political antagonisms (Hardcover)

This book demonstrates the media's role in the creation of dominant discourses on climate change and examines the arguments made by political actors in the mass media arena. Using in-depth empirical research of Sweden, a country considered by the international political community to be a frontrunner in tackling climate change, the book analyses the worldwide climate change debate. Debating climate change policy results in an ideological battle between concrete, fundamental, and long-term social values. The question of how the future of society can be organized is open to various interpretations and this book identifies four globally circulated discourses that surround this issue. They are industrial fatalism, green Keynesianism, climate skepticism and ecosocialism, all of which call for very different actions to be taken to achieve sustainability. This highly original and detailed study focuses on opinion leaders and the way discourses are framed in the climate change debate, making it valuable reading for students and scholars of environmental communication and media as well environmental policy and politics.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies in Environmental Communication and Media
Release date:	November 2014
First published:	2015
Authors:	Jonas Anshelm • Martin Hultman
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	202
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-78131-3
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > Global warming
LSN:	1-138-78131-2
Barcode:	9781138781313

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