Mediating climate change

Climate change has been a significant area of scientific concern since the late 1970s, but has only recently entered mainstream culture and politics. However, as media coverage of climate change increases in the twenty-first century, the gap between our understanding of climate change and climate action appears to widen. In this timely book, Julie Doyle explores how practices of mediation and visualisation shape how we think about, address and act upon climate change. Through historical and contemporary case studies drawn from science, media, politics and culture, "Mediating Climate Change" identifies the representational problems climate change poses for public and political debate. It offers ways forward by exploring how climate change can be made more meaningful through, for example, innovative forms of climate activism, the reframing of meat and dairy consumption, media engagement with climate events and science, and artistic experimentation. Doyle argues that cultural discourses have problematically situated nature and the environment as objects externalised from humans and culture. "Mediating Climate Change" calls for a more nuanced understanding of human-environmental relations, in order for us to be able to more fully imagine and address the challenges climate change poses for us all.

Problematising science and environment : conceptualising nature, vision and time in the mediation of climate change -- Visualising climate change : negotiating the temporalities of climate through imagery -- Coda : nature, vision and time -- An emerging climate movement : questioning values of environment, justice and faith -- Mediating Copenhagen : communicating scientific (un)certainty and the political (un)urgency of climate action -- Sustainable consumption? : reframing meat and dairy consumption in the politics of climate change -- Imaginative engagements : critical reflections on visual arts and climate change -- Epilogue: Positive action in a changing climate.