Climate Change Temporalities: Explorations in Vernacular, Popular, and Scientific Discourse

ISBN-13: 9780367479602 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 202 str.

Marit Ruge Bj?rke; Anne Eriksen; Kyrre Kverndokk

Opis

This book explores how the relationship between the past, present and future is articulated in different climate change discourses. The contributors address climate change temporality by exploring the multiple temporalities present in texts on climate change from a range of different genres.

Spis treści

1. Climate Change Temporalities: Narratives, Genres, and Tropes, Kyrre Kverndokk and Anne Eriksen  Part 1: Vernacular Notions of Climate Change Temporality  2. ‘Where is global warming when you need it?’: The Role of Immediacy in Vernacular Constructions of Climate Change, Diane E. Goldstein  3. The Great Re-Skilling: Understandings of Generation, Tradition, and Nostalgia in Everyday-Life Climate Activism, Lone Ree Milkær  4. In the Shadow of Apocalyptic Futures: Climate Change as a Cultural Trope in Vernacular Discourse, Camilla Asplund Ingemark  Part 2: Mediating Climate Change Temporality  5. The Extreme Summer of 2018: Norwegian Weather News and the Politics of Weatherlore, Kyrre Kverndokk  6. The Prophetic Tone in True Detective: Sensing the Time of the Future Climate Disaster, Isak Winkel Holm  7. Advocating Equilibrium: On Climate Change at Public Aquariums, Lars Kaijser  Part 3: Cultural Histories of Climate Change Temporality  8. The Sixth Extinction: Naming Time in a New Way, Marit Ruge Bjærke  9. Smoke, Smells, and Seaweeds in Eighteenth-Century Norway, Anne Eriksen  10. Origin Myths from the Cultural Historical Archive of the Anthropocene: Vico, Burnet, and the Time of the Deluge, John Ødemark  Part 4: Conclusion  11. Living the Climate Change, Marit Ruge Bjærke