How Climate Change Comes to Matter

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dc.alternateIdentifier9781478091981
dc.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
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dc.creatorCallison, Candis
dc.date2022-02-17T05:31:44Z
dc.date2022-02-17T05:31:44Z
dc.date2014
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-25T13:52:21Z
dc.descriptionDuring the past decade, skepticism about climate change has frustrated those seeking to engage broad publics and motivate them to take action on the issue. In this innovative ethnography, Candis Callison examines the initiatives of social and professional groups as they encourage diverse American publics to care about climate change. She explores the efforts of science journalists, scientists who have become expert voices for and about climate change, American evangelicals, Indigenous leaders, and advocates for corporate social responsibility. The disparate efforts of these groups illuminate the challenge of maintaining fidelity to scientific facts while transforming them into ethical and moral calls to action. Callison investigates the different vernaculars through which we understand and articulate our worlds, as well as the nuanced and pluralistic understandings of climate change evident in different forms of advocacy. As she demonstrates, climate change offers an opportunity to look deeply at how issues and problems that begin in a scientific context come to matter to wide publics, and to rethink emerging interactions among different kinds of knowledge and experience, evolving media landscapes, and claims to authority and expertise.
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dc.imprintDuke University Press
dc.languageeng
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dc.number6997
dc.publisherDuke University Press
dc.publisherDuke University Press
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dc.relationisbn9781478091981
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dc.subjectSocial Science
dc.subjectMedia Studies
dc.subjectScience
dc.subjectEnvironmental Science
dc.subjectSocial Science
dc.subjectAnthropology
dc.subjectCultural & Social
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
dc.titleHow Climate Change Comes to Matter

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