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UNINA9910462825903321 |
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Fava Sergio |
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Environmental apocalypse in science and art : designing nightmares / / Sergio Fava |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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1-283-94225-9 |
0-203-09471-9 |
1-136-20894-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (245 p.) |
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Routledge studies in social and political thought ; ; 79 |
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Climatic changes - History |
Climatic changes - Forecasting |
Environmental disasters - History |
Environmental disasters - Forecasting |
Environmental risk assessment |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Environmental Apocalypse in Science and Art: Designing Nightmares; Copyright; Contents; Figures and Tables; Boxes; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; 1 Deadly Weather: Narratives of Nature and Agency During the Little Ice Age; 2 Counting the Days: John Napier's Exegesis and Mathematics; 3 Drawing the End: Inigo Jones' Banqueting House; 4 Assembling the Worldmachine: Mathematical Modelling of Climate Change; 5 Imagining Futures: The Special Report on Emission Scenarios; 6 Creating One Future: The Doomsday Vault; 7 Reclaiming Futures: Olafur Eliasson's Weather Project; Notes |
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At a time when it is clear that climate change adaptation and mitigation are failing, this book examines how our assumptions about (valid and usable) knowledge are preventing effective climate action. Through a cross-disciplinary, empirically-based analysis of climate science and policy, the book situates the failures of climate policy in the cultural |
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history of prediction and its interfaces with policy. Fava calls into question the current interfaces between scientific research and climate policy by tracing multiple connections between modelling, epistemology, politics, food security, reli |
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UNINA9910961728503321 |
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Autore |
Walton David <1955-> |
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Introducing cultural studies : learning through practice / / David Walton |
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Los Angeles, : SAGE, 2008 |
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9781282119154 |
128211915X |
9781849204972 |
1849204977 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (x, 323 p.) : ill |
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Culture - Study and teaching |
Civilization - Study and teaching |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Introduction; Part I: High Cultural Gladiators: Some Influential Early Models of Cultural Analysis; Chapter One: Culture and Anarchy in the UK: a dialogue with Matthew Arnold; Chapter Two: The Leavisites and T.S. Eliot Combat Mass Urban Culture; Chapter Three: Adorno, the Frankfurt School and the 'Culture Industry'; Part II: The Transformative Power of Working-Class Culture; Chapter Four: From A Day Out at the Seasside to the Milk Bar: Richard Hoggart and Working-Class Culture; Chapter Five: E.P. Thompson and Working-Class Culture as a Site of Conflict, Consciousness and Resistance |
Chapter Six: Towards a Recognizable Theory of Culture: Raymond WilliamsPart III: Consolidating Cultural Studies: Subcultures, the Popular, Ideology and Hegemony; Chapter Seven: Introducing Stuart Hall: The Importance and Re-evaluation of Popular Mass Culture; Chapter Eight: Youth Subcultures and Resistance: a Dialogue with |
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Quadrophenia; Chapter Nine: Subcultures and Widening Horizons: Further Strategies for Practice; Chapter Ten: How to Dominate the Masses without Resorting to the Inquisition: Antonio Gramsci and Hegemony Theory |
Chapter Eleven: A Few Ways you might Adapt Louis Althusser's Ideas to Cultural Studies: A Dialogue with Dr Jekyll and Mr HydePart IV: Probing the Margins, Remembering the Forgotten: Representation, Subordination and Identity; Chapter Twelve: Crying Woolf! Thinking with Feminism; Chapter Thirteen: Adapting Theory to Explore Race, Ethnicity and Sexuality: the Case of East is East; Part V: Honing Your Skills, Conclusions and 'Begin-endings'; Chapter Fourteen: Heuristic Thinking, Creative Cri-tickle Acts and Further Research; Index |
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The fundamental task facing students of cultural studies is the application of theory into critical practice, and this book offers its readers the conceptual tools to practice cultural analysis for themselves. It includes pedagogical features, such as dialogues, graphs, images, and recommended readings. |
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