Book description
There is an ideological war of words waging in America, one that speaks to a new fundamentalism rising not just within the American public, but across other ideologically-torn nations around the globe as well. At its heart is climate skepticism, an ideological watershed that has become a core belief forā¦
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People make sense of their experience of the world through the stories they tell each other.Ā These stories bind people together into social formations.Ā This is as true for climate change as it is for many other bewildering or unsettling phenomenon.Ā Lejano and Nero start from this premise and show how the narrative of climate skepticism has been able to forge a social movement and stake a challenge to the hegemony of the larger community of scientists on what is regarded (falsely) as a matter of science.Ā Using narrative and discourse analysis, richly illustrated with examples, the book takes theā¦
From Mike's list on the contested meanings of climate change.
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