Global Warming in Local Discourses: How Communities around the World Make Sense of Climate Change - cover image

Book Series

Copyright

Michael Brüggemann; Simone Rödder

Published On

2020-10-14

ISBN

Paperback978-1-78374-959-1
Hardback978-1-78374-960-7
PDF978-1-80064-125-9
HTML978-1-80064-618-6
XML978-1-78374-940-9
EPUB978-1-78374-938-6
MOBI978-1-78374-939-3

Language

  • English

Print Length

286 pages (xii+274)

Dimensions

Paperback156 x 20 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.78" x 9.21")
Hardback156 x 24 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.94" x 9.21")

Weight

Paperback1207g (42.58oz)
Hardback1597g (56.33oz)

Media

Illustrations12
Tables7

OCLC Number

1227026979

LCCN

2019394519

BIC

  • RN
  • RNT
  • RNA
  • JFD
  • J

BISAC

  • SCI019000
  • SCI026000
  • SCI042000
  • SOC026040

LCC

  • QC981.8.G56

Keywords

  • climate change
  • international politics
  • local communities
  • transnational discourses
  • Greenland
  • Tanzania
  • culture
  • geography
  • sense-making
  • sustainability

Global Warming in Local Discourses

How Communities around the World Make Sense of Climate Change

Global news on anthropogenic climate change is shaped by international politics, scientific reports and voices from transnational protest movements. This timely volume asks how local communities engage with these transnational discourses.

The chapters in this volume present a range of compelling case studies drawn from a broad cross-section of local communities around the world, reflecting diverse cultural and geographical contexts. From Greenland to northern Tanzania, it illuminates how different understandings evolve in diverse cultural and geographical contexts while also revealing some common patterns of how people make sense of climate change. Global Warming in Local Discourses constitutes a significant, new contribution to understanding the multi-perspectivity of our debates on climate change, further highlighting the need for interdisciplinary study within this area.

It will be a valuable resource to those studying climate and science communication; those interested in understanding the various roles played by journalism, NGOs, politics and science in shaping public understandings of climate change, as well as those exploring the intersections of the global and the local in debates on the sustainable transformation of societies.

Endorsements

With an interdisciplinary scope and a weaving together of global and local climate change concerns, 'Global Warming in Local Discourses' provides an excellent example for the type of collection urgently needed right now. Merging communication studies methods with social histories and cultural studies, this collection offers a range of perspectives on how global warming is perceived, experienced, communicated, and acted upon differently across the world. Quite crucially, it reminds us of the importance of understanding the local challenges, suffering, and response so often overlooked when addressing this global problem, and offers dynamic ways for assessing them.

Hunter Vaughan

Editor of Journal of Environmental Media, University of Colorado Boulder

Reviews

Across the case studies, essays show that local media and leaders have a vital role to play in effectively communicating climate change. […] The volume will be of interest to upper-level undergraduates and graduate students in anthropology, sociology, and communication studies.

H. D. Wong, SUNY Cortland

CHOICE Connect (0009-4978), vol. 59, no. 1, 2021.

Contributors

Michael Brüggemann

(editor)
Professor of Communication Research, Climate and Science Communication at Universität Hamburg
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7994-3914

Simone Rödder

(editor)
Assistant Professor of Sociology of Science and Principal Investigator in the Cluster of Excellence CLICCS at Universität Hamburg
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4013-6183