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Beschreibung
"Despite enormous scientific and media attention focused on the topic, real progress against climate change has been frustratingly slow. Why? Peter Friederici claims that this failure is largely due to narrative--specifically, to the existence of numerous compelling narratives of denial that are closely tied to our political, economic, religious, and psychological belief systems. By analyzing how those narratives lead us astray from a full recognition of both the problem and potential solutions, he argues that only by coming up with new story frameworks can we hope to effectively address climate breakdown. Specifically, he calls for finding stories that utilize comic perspectives, radical hope, and much broader democratic participation than we have generally found in mainstream accounts of climate change"--
"Despite enormous scientific and media attention focused on the topic, real progress against climate change has been frustratingly slow. Why? Peter Friederici claims that this failure is largely due to narrative--specifically, to the existence of numerous compelling narratives of denial that are closely tied to our political, economic, religious, and psychological belief systems. By analyzing how those narratives lead us astray from a full recognition of both the problem and potential solutions, he argues that only by coming up with new story frameworks can we hope to effectively address climate breakdown. Specifically, he calls for finding stories that utilize comic perspectives, radical hope, and much broader democratic participation than we have generally found in mainstream accounts of climate change"--
Über den Autor
Peter Friederici; foreword by Kathleen Dean Moore
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Series Foreword vii
Foreword by Kathleen Dean Moore ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
1 Prediction 13
2 Metaphor 43
3 Narrative 63
4 Tragedy 99
5 Comedy and Complexity 123
Notes 145
Index 165
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780262543934
ISBN-10: 0262543931
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Moore, Kathleen Dean
Friederici, Peter
Hersteller: MIT Press Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 225 x 150 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Kathleen Dean Moore (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.10.2022
Gewicht: 0,246 kg
Artikel-ID: 122044511

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