Climate Change and Storytelling - Narratives and Cultural Meaning in Environmental Communication

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.
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. 

Sommario

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.

Info autore

Annika Arnold 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.

Riassunto

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

Relazione

"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)

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Annika Arnold
• Editore: Springer, Berlin
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319693828
• ISBN: 978-3-31-969382-8
• Pagine: 136
• Dimensioni: 150 mm x 15 mm x 218 mm
• Peso: 318 g
• Illustrazioni: XI, 136 p.
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in Environmental Sociology and Policy; Palgrave Studies in Environmental Sociology and Po
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Altro; Soziologie, C, Society & social sciences, Climate Change, Meteorologie und Klimatologie (Klimaforschung), Environment, Physische Geographie und Topographie, Environmental Studies, biotechnology, Social Sciences, The environment, Environmental Sociology, Meteorology and climatology, Development & environmental geography, Environmental Geography, Earth System Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Climate Change Management and Policy, Environment Studies