Climate Change and Storytelling
Narratives and Cultural Meaning in Environmental Communication
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Beschreibung
Climate change is as much a cultural phenomenon as it is a natural one. This book is about those cultural patterns that surround our perception of the environmental crisis and which are embodied in the narratives told by climate change advocates. It investigates the themes and motifs in those narratives through the use of narrative theory and provides a framework for narrative analysis from a cultural perspective.
Developing a framework for cultural narrative analysis, Climate Change and Storytelling draws on qualitative interviews with stakeholders, activists and politicians in the USA and Germany to identify motifs and the relationships between heroes, villains and victims, as told by the messengers of the narrative.
This book will provide academics and practitioners with insights into the structure of climate change communication among climate advocates and the cultural fabric that informs it.
Emphasises the need for narrative analysis in understanding the current political and public debate surrounding climate change
Suggests an analytical scheme for investigating cultural narratives with the help of narrative and literary theory
Presents the findings of the author’s narrative analyses of interviews with climate change advocates in the USA and Germany
Emphasises the need for narrative analysis in understanding the current political and public debate surrounding climate change Suggests an analytical scheme for investigating cultural narratives with the help of narrative and literary theory Presents the findings of the author’s narrative analyses of interviews with climate change advocates in the USA and Germany
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Annika Arnold
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climate change climate communication environmental sociology environmental communication cultural narrative analysis climate politics climate policy Narratives in Climate Change Communication Risk perception in Climate Change Communcation Risk Communication and Climate Change Environmental Geography climate change impacts Climate change management
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“This book provides with a clear conceptual diagnosis that helps understanding how the different narratives operate further positive changes in the communicative process. To my end, this represents a valuable endeavor that allows the formulations of concrete policies to avoid panic, indifference or anxiety.” (Maximiliano E. Korstanje, Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 27 (03), 2018)
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