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Climate Cultures in Europe and North America: New Formations of Environmental Knowledge and Action book cover

1st Edition

Climate Cultures in Europe and North America New Formations of Environmental Knowledge and Action

Edited By Thorsten Heimann, Jamie Sommer, Margarethe Kusenbach, Gabriela Christmann Copyright 2023
196 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Bringing together scholarly research by climate experts working in different locations and social science disciplines, this book offers insights into how climate change is socially and culturally constructed. Whereas existing studies of climate cultural differences are predominantly rooted in a static understanding of culture, cultural globalization theory suggests that new formations emerge... Read more

PART 1 Introduction

Examining Climate Cultures in Europe and North America

JAMIE SOMMER, THORSTEN HEIMANN, MARGARETHE KUSENBACH AND GABRIELA CHRISTMANN

PART II Contexts

1 Climate Cultures

HARALD WELZER, HANS-GEORG SOEFFNER AND DANA GIESECKE

2 Excavating Transatlantic Climates: An Archeology of Climate Discourse between Germany and the United States

LAWRENCE CULVER AND DORIS McGONAGILL

PART III Europe

3 Capturing Climate-Cultural Diversity: A Comparison of Climate Change Debates in Germany

SARAH KESSLER AND HENRIKE RAU

4 Unusual Suspects: Urban Change Agents for Climate Change Mitigation in Germany

MIRIAM SCHAD AND BERND SOMMER

5 Fractured Climate Cultures in Depopulated Southern Spanish Communities

PILAR MORALES-GINER

6 Cultural Perception and Adaptation to Climate Change among Reindeer Saami Communities in Finland

KLEMETTI NAKKALAJARVI, SUVI JUNTUNEN AND JOUNI J. K. JAAKKOLA

PART IV North America

7 Contested Climate Cultures: Frame Resonance Disputes within the US Environmental Movement over Geoengineering Proposals

DAVID ZELLER

8 The Politics of a Sustainable Coast: Competing Adaptation Cultures in Southeastern Louisiana

MICHAEL A. HAEDICKE

9 Playing Hide and Seek: Adapting Climate Cultures in Troubled Political Waters in Georgia, United States

JULIA TEEBKEN

Biography

Thorsten Heimann is a sociologist, cultural scientist, and Research Associate at the Research Center for Sustainability, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany. Since 2020 he has been a strategic advisor for "Green Culture and Sustainability" for the German Minister of State for Culture and the Media in Germany.

Jamie Sommer is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of South Florida.

Margarethe Kusenbach is Professor of Sociology at the University of South Florida.

Gabriela Christmann is a sociologist and Head of the Research Group "Social Innovations in Rural Areas" at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS) in Erkner (near Berlin), Germany.

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