Mediating climate change / by Julie Doyle.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Climate change has been a significant area of scientific concern since the late 1970s, but has only recently entered mainstream culture and politics. However, as media coverage of climate change increases in the twenty-first century, the gap between our understanding of climate change and climate action appears to widen. In this timely book, Julie Doyle explores how practices of mediation and visualisation shape how we think about, address and act upon climate change. Through historical and contemporary case studies drawn from science, media, politics and culture, Mediating Climate Change id.

Machine generated contents note: pt. I HISTORICISING/THEORISING CLIMATE CHANGE -- 1. Problematising Science and Environment: Conceptualising Nature, Vision and Time in the Mediation of Climate Change -- 2. Visualising Climate Change: Negotiating the Temporalities of Climate Through Imagery -- 3. Coda: Nature, Vision and Time -- pt. II MEDIATING/ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE -- 4. Emerging Climate Movement: Questioning Values of Environment, Justice and Faith -- 5. Mediating Copenhagen: Communicating Scientific (Un)certainty and the Political (Un)urgency of Climate Action -- 6. Sustainable Consumption?: Reframing Meat and Dairy Consumption in the Politics of Climate Change -- 7. Imaginative Engagements: Critical Reflections on Visual Arts and Climate Change.

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