Charting innovative directions in the environmental humanities, this book examines the cultural history of climate change under three broad headings: history, writing and politics. Climate change compels us to rethink many of our traditional means of historical understanding, and demands new ways of relating human knowledge, action and representations to the dimensions of geological and evolutionary time. To address these challenges, this book positions our present moment of climatic knowledge within much longer histories of climatic experience. Only in light of these histories, it argues, can we properly understand what climate means today across an array of discursive domains, from politics, literature and law to neighbourly conversation. Its chapters identify turning-points and experiments in the construction of climates and of atmospheres of sensation. They examine how contemporary ecological thought has repoliticised the representation of nature and detail vital aspects of the history and prehistory of our climatic modernity.
This ground-breaking text will be of great interest to researchers and postgraduate students in environmental history, environmental governance, history of ideas and science, literature and eco-criticism, political theory, cultural theory, as well as all general readers interested in climate change.
| ISBN: | 9781138838161 |
| Publication date: | 5th May 2016 |
| Author: | Tom Bristow, Thomas H Ford |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 264 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Environmental Humanities |
| Genres: |
Cultural studies Climate change Social and cultural history Meteorology and climatology Physical geography and topography Human geography Environmental policy and protocols Literary studies: general Sociology Politics and government |
Charting innovative directions in the environmental humanities, this book examines the cultural history of climate change under three broad headings: history, writing and politics. Climate change compels us to rethink many of our traditional means of historical understanding, and demands new ways of relating human knowledge, action and representations to the dimensions of geological and evolutionary time. To address these challenges, this book positions our present moment of climatic knowledge within much longer histories of climatic experience. Only in light of these histories, it argues, can we properly understand what climate means today across an array of discursive domains, from politics, literature and law to neighbourly conversation. Its chapters identify turning-points and experiments in the construction of climates and of atmospheres of sensation. They examine how contemporary ecological thought has repoliticised the representation of nature and detail vital aspects of the history and prehistory of our climatic modernity.
This ground-breaking text will be of great interest to researchers and postgraduate students in environmental history, environmental governance, history of ideas and science, literature and eco-criticism, political theory, cultural theory, as well as all general readers interested in climate change.
A Cultural History of Climate Change features in the following genres: Cultural studies, Climate change, Social and cultural history, Meteorology and climatology, Physical geography and topography, Human geography, Environmental policy and protocols, Literary studies: general, Sociology, Politics and government
A Cultural History of Climate Change is available in Hardback
A Cultural History of Climate Change was written by Tom Bristow, Thomas H Ford and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
A Cultural History of Climate Change has 264 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Environmental Humanities series
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