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How climate change comes to matter : the communal life of facts /

A rich ethnographic account describing the processes by which climate change comes to matter collectively and individually, and how vernacular explanations of climate change reflect diverse ways of knowing and caring about the world.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Callison, Candis, 1971- (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Series:Experimental futures.
Subjects:
Climatic changes > Social aspects > United States.
Climatic changes > Political aspects > United States.
Climatic changes > Press coverage > United States.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
Climatic changes > Political aspects.
Climatic changes > Social aspects.
United States.
SCIENCE / Environmental Science
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The Inuit gift
  • Reporting on climate change
  • Blessing the facts
  • Negotiating risk, expertise, and near-advocacy
  • What gets measured, gets managed
  • Epilogue: rethinking public engagement and collaboration.