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In Climate Obstruction: How Denial, Delay and Inaction are Heating
the Planet, Kristoffer Ekberg, Bernhard Forchtner, Martin Hultman
and Kirsti Jylha bring together crucial insights from environmental
history, sociology, media and communication studies and psychology
to help us understand why we are failing to take necessary measures
to avert the unfolding climate crisis. They do so by examining the
variety of ways in which meaningful climate action has been
obstructed. This ranges from denial of the scientific evidence for
human-induced climate change and its policy consequences, to
(seemingly sincere) acknowledgement of scientific evidence while
nevertheless delaying meaningful climate action. The authors also
consider all those actions by which often well-meaning individuals
and collectives (unintendedly) hamper climate action. In doing so,
this book maps out arguments and strategies that have been used to
counter environmental protection and regulation since the 1960s by,
first and foremost, corporations supported by conservative actors,
but also far-right ones as well as ordinary citizens. This timely
and accessible book provides tools and lessons to understand,
identify and call out such arguments and strategies, and points to
actions and systemic and cultural changes needed to avert or at
least mitigate the climate crisis.
This volume presents ground-breaking analyses of how the far right
represents natural environments and environmentalism around the
globe. Images are not simply pervasive in our increasingly visual
culture – they are a means of proposing worlds to viewers.
Accordingly, the book approaches the visual not as something
‘extra’ or ‘illustrative’ but as a key means of producing
identities and ‘doing politics’. Putting visuality centre stage
and covering political parties and non-party actors in Africa,
Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Europe and the United States,
contributors demonstrate the various ways in which the far right
articulates natural environments and the rampant environmental
crises of the twenty-first century, providing essential insights
into such multifaceted politics. -- .
This book reconstructs how claims to know 'the lessons' from past
wrongdoings are made useful in the present. These claims are
powerful tools in contemporary debates over who we are, who we want
to be and what we should do. Drawing on a wide range of spoken and
written texts from Austria, Denmark, Germany and the United States,
this book proposes an abstract framework through which such claims
can be understood. It does so by conceptualising four rhetorics of
learning and how each of them links memories of past wrongdoings to
opposition to present and future wrongdoings. Drawing extensively
on narrative theory, Lessons from the Past? reconstructs how links
between past, present and future can be narrativised, thus helping
to understand the subjectivities and feelings that these stories
facilitate. The book closes by considering if and how such
rhetorics might live up to their promise to know 'the lessons' and
to enable learning, offering a revised theory of collective
learning processes.
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Politics provides a
comprehensive overview of this important and dynamic area of study
and research. Language is indispensable to initiating, justifying,
legitimatising and coordinating action as well as negotiating
conflict and, as such, is intrinsically linked to the area of
politics. With 45 chapters written by leading scholars from around
the world, this Handbook covers the following key areas: Overviews
of the most influential theoretical approaches, including Bourdieu,
Foucault, Habermas and Marx; Methodological approaches to language
and politics, covering - among others - content analysis,
conversation analysis, multimodal analysis and narrative analysis;
Genres of political action from speech-making and policy to
national anthems and billboards; Cutting-edge case studies about
hot-topic socio-political phenomena, such as ageing, social class,
gendered politics and populism. The Routledge Handbook of Language
and Politics is a vibrant survey of this key field and is essential
reading for advanced students and researchers studying language and
politics.
In Climate Obstruction: How Denial, Delay and Inaction are Heating
the Planet, Kristoffer Ekberg, Bernhard Forchtner, Martin Hultman
and Kirsti Jylha bring together crucial insights from environmental
history, sociology, media and communication studies and psychology
to help us understand why we are failing to take necessary measures
to avert the unfolding climate crisis. They do so by examining the
variety of ways in which meaningful climate action has been
obstructed. This ranges from denial of the scientific evidence for
human-induced climate change and its policy consequences, to
(seemingly sincere) acknowledgement of scientific evidence while
nevertheless delaying meaningful climate action. The authors also
consider all those actions by which often well-meaning individuals
and collectives (unintendedly) hamper climate action. In doing so,
this book maps out arguments and strategies that have been used to
counter environmental protection and regulation since the 1960s by,
first and foremost, corporations supported by conservative actors,
but also far-right ones as well as ordinary citizens. This timely
and accessible book provides tools and lessons to understand,
identify and call out such arguments and strategies, and points to
actions and systemic and cultural changes needed to avert or at
least mitigate the climate crisis.
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, both the crisis of
liberal democracy, as visible in, for example, the rise of
far-right actors in Europe and the United States, and environmental
crises, from declining biodiversity to climate change, are
increasingly in the public spotlight. Whilst both areas have been
analysed extensively on their own, The Far Right and the
Environment: Politics, Discourse and Communication provides much
needed insights into their intersection by illuminating the
environmental communication of far-right party and non-party actors
in Europe and the United States. Although commonly perceived as a
'left-wing' issue today, concerns over the natural environment by
the far right have a long, ideology-driven history. Thus, it is not
surprising that some members of the far right offer distinctive
ecological visions of communal life, though, for example,
climate-change scepticism is voiced too. Investigating this range
of stances within their discourse about the natural environment
provides a window into the wider politics of the far right and
points to a close connection between the politics of identity and
the imagination of nature. Connecting the fields of environmental
communication and study of the far right, contributions to this
edited volume therefore offer timely assessments of this
often-overlooked dimension of far-right politics.
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, both the crisis of
liberal democracy, as visible in, for example, the rise of
far-right actors in Europe and the United States, and environmental
crises, from declining biodiversity to climate change, are
increasingly in the public spotlight. Whilst both areas have been
analysed extensively on their own, The Far Right and the
Environment: Politics, Discourse and Communication provides much
needed insights into their intersection by illuminating the
environmental communication of far-right party and non-party actors
in Europe and the United States. Although commonly perceived as a
'left-wing' issue today, concerns over the natural environment by
the far right have a long, ideology-driven history. Thus, it is not
surprising that some members of the far right offer distinctive
ecological visions of communal life, though, for example,
climate-change scepticism is voiced too. Investigating this range
of stances within their discourse about the natural environment
provides a window into the wider politics of the far right and
points to a close connection between the politics of identity and
the imagination of nature. Connecting the fields of environmental
communication and study of the far right, contributions to this
edited volume therefore offer timely assessments of this
often-overlooked dimension of far-right politics.
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Politics provides a
comprehensive overview of this important and dynamic area of study
and research. Language is indispensable to initiating, justifying,
legitimatising and coordinating action as well as negotiating
conflict and, as such, is intrinsically linked to the area of
politics. With 45 chapters written by leading scholars from around
the world, this Handbook covers the following key areas: Overviews
of the most influential theoretical approaches, including Bourdieu,
Foucault, Habermas and Marx; Methodological approaches to language
and politics, covering - among others - content analysis,
conversation analysis, multimodal analysis and narrative analysis;
Genres of political action from speech-making and policy to
national anthems and billboards; Cutting-edge case studies about
hot-topic socio-political phenomena, such as ageing, social class,
gendered politics and populism. The Routledge Handbook of Language
and Politics is a vibrant survey of this key field and is essential
reading for advanced students and researchers studying language and
politics.
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