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Climate Change and Storytelling


Climate Change and Storytelling

Narratives and Cultural Meaning in Environmental Communication
Palgrave Studies in Environmental Sociology and Policy

von: Annika Arnold

64,19 €

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 18.01.2018
ISBN/EAN: 9783319693835
Sprache: englisch

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<p>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 cultural sociology.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.&nbsp;</p><div><br></div>
<p>1. Introduction: Why Narratives Matter in Climate Change Communication .- 2. Climate Change Communication Studies: Inquiries into Beliefs, Information and Stories .- 3. How to Understand the Role of Narratives in Environmental Communication: Cultural Narrative Analysis .- 4. Telling the Stories of Climate Change: Structure and Content .- 5. Conclusion: Pitfalls and the Power of Narratives.</p>
<p><b>Annika Arnold </b>is Senior Researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Risk and Innovation Studies (ZIRIUS), Stuttgart University, Germany. She is an environmental and cultural sociologist whose research focuses on topics of sustainable development and environmental communication, largely from a cultural perspective.<br></p>
<p>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.</p><p>Developing a framework for cultural narrative analysis,&nbsp;<i>Climate Change and Storytelling&nbsp;</i>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.</p><p>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.&nbsp;</p>
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
<div><p>Emphasises the need for narrative analysis in understanding the current political and public debate surrounding climate change</p> <p>Suggests an analytical scheme for investigating cultural narratives with the help of narrative and literary theory</p> <p>Presents the findings of the author’s narrative analyses of interviews with climate change advocates in the USA and Germany</p></div>

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