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Informationen zum Autor Philip Smith is Professor of Sociology and co-Director of the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology. His work explores the meaningful nature of social life as it plays out in a communicative public sphere. He is author of Why War? (2005) and Punishment and Culture (2008) and co-author of Incivility: The Rude Stranger in Everyday Life (Cambridge University Press, 2010), as well as a dozen other books and edited collections. Nicolas Howe is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Williams College, where he is also affiliated with the American Studies Program and the Department of Anthropology and Sociology. His work explores the cultural and religious dimensions of modern environmental thought from the perspective of cultural geography. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University, the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation and the National Science Foundation. Klappentext Climate Change as Social Drama looks at the cultural sociology of climate change in public communication. Zusammenfassung This book looks at climate change in the mass media and in public communication. Chapters include the rise of the apocalyptic scenario in public debate! the success of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth! climate art and ill-conceived advertising campaigns! the meaning of recent climate conferences! and the impacts of climate-linked natural disasters. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: the problem of climate change; 2. Climate change as social drama; 3. Narrating global warming; 4. An inconvenient truth: the power of ethos; 5. Climate change art: an illustrative failure?; 6. 'Climategate' and other controversies; 7. The climate conference as theatre; 8. Local dramas: the places of climate change; 9. Conclusion: the show must go on.
