Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change: Literature, Psychoanalysis and Denial

by Lee Zimmerman

Book Overview

The more the global north has learned about the existential threat of climate change, the faster it has emitted greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. In Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change, Lee Zimmerman thinks about why this is by examining how "climate change" has been discursively constructed, tracing how the ways we talk and write about climate change have worked to normalize a generalized, bipartisan denialism more profound than...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367355574
• ISBN13: 9780367355579
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"