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Climate Change and Post-Political Communication

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For many years, the objective of environmental campaigners was to push climate change on to the agenda of political leaders and to encourage media attention to the issue. By the first decade of the twenty-first century, it appeared that their efforts had been spectacularly successful. Yet just at the moment when the campaigners’ goals were being achieved, it seemed that the idea of getting the issue into mainstream discussion had been mistaken all along; that the consensus-building approach produced little or no meaningful action. That is the problem of climate change as a ‘post-political’ issue, which is the subject of this book. Examining how climate change is communicated in politics, news media and celebrity culture, Climate Change and Post-Political Communication explores how the issue has been taken up by elites as potentially offering a sense of purpose or mission in the absence of political visions of the future, and considers the ways in which it provides a focus for much broader anxieties about a loss of modernist political agency and meaning. Drawing on a wide range of literature and case studies, and taking a critical and contextual approach to the analysis of climate change communication, this book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of environmental studies, communication studies, and media and film studies.

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ISBN: 9781138777491
Publication date: 4th December 2017
Author: Philip Hammond
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 150 pages
Series: Routledge Studies in Environmental Communication and Media
Genres: Communication studies
Development studies
Environmental science, engineering and technology
History
Media studies
Climate change
Political campaigning and advertising