How Climate Change Comes to Matter : The Communal Life of Facts

Candis Callison

ISBN 10: 0822357712 / ISBN 13: 9780822357711

Published by Duke University Press Dez 2014, 2014

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Neuware - During the past decade, skepticism about climate change has frustrated those seeking to engage broad publics and motivate them to take action on the issue. In this innovative ethnography, Candis Callison examines the initiatives of social and professional groups as they encourage diverse American publics to care about climate change. She explores the efforts of science journalists, scientists who have become expert voices for and about climate change, American evangelicals, Indigenous leaders, and advocates for corporate social responsibility.The disparate efforts of these groups illuminate the challenge of maintaining fidelity to scientific facts while transforming them into ethical and moral calls to action. Callison investigates the different vernaculars through which we understand and articulate our worlds, as well as the nuanced and pluralistic understandings of climate change evident in different forms of advocacy. As she demonstrates, climate change offers an opportunity to look deeply at how issues and problems that begin in a scientific context come to matter to wide publics, and to rethink emerging interactions among different kinds of knowledge and experience, evolving media landscapes, and claims to authority and expertise.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How Climate Change Comes to Matter : The Communal Life of Facts
• Publisher: Duke University Press Dez 2014
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822357712
• ISBN 13: 9780822357711
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 160H x 25D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 540 grams

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Synopsis

During the past decade, skepticism about climate change has frustrated those seeking to engage broad publics and motivate them to take action on the issue. In this innovative ethnography, Candis Callison examines the initiatives of social and professional groups as they encourage diverse American publics to care about climate change. She explores the efforts of science journalists, scientists who have become expert voices for and about climate change, American evangelicals, Indigenous leaders, and advocates for corporate social responsibility.

The disparate efforts of these groups illuminate the challenge of maintaining fidelity to scientific facts while transforming them into ethical and moral calls to action. Callison investigates the different vernaculars through which we understand and articulate our worlds, as well as the nuanced and pluralistic understandings of climate change evident in different forms of advocacy. As she demonstrates, climate change offers an opportunity to look deeply at how issues and problems that begin in a scientific context come to matter to wide publics, and to rethink emerging interactions among different kinds of knowledge and experience, evolving media landscapes, and claims to authority and expertise.

About the Author

Candis Callison is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of British Columbia.