Climate Change as Social Drama: Global Warming in the Public Sphere

by Philip Smith and Nicolas Howe

Book Overview

Climate change is not just a scientific fact, nor merely a social and political problem. It is also a set of stories and characters that amount to a social drama. This drama, as much as hard scientific or political realities, shapes perception of the problem. Drs Smith and Howe use the perspective of cultural sociology and Aristotle's timeless theories about narrative and rhetoric to explore this meaningful and visible surface of climate change in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107503051
• ISBN13: 9781107503052
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"