1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462825903321

Autore

Fava Sergio

Titolo

Environmental apocalypse in science and art : designing nightmares / / Sergio Fava

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-283-94225-9

0-203-09471-9

1-136-20894-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in social and political thought ; ; 79

Disciplina

363.34/92

Soggetti

Climatic changes - History

Climatic changes - Forecasting

Environmental disasters - History

Environmental disasters - Forecasting

Environmental risk assessment

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

BibliographyIndex

Sommario/riassunto

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



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

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961728503321

Autore

Walton David <1955->

Titolo

Introducing cultural studies : learning through practice / / David Walton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Los Angeles, : SAGE, 2008

ISBN

9781282119154

128211915X

9781849204972

1849204977

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 323 p.) : ill

Disciplina

306.071

Soggetti

Culture - Study and teaching

Civilization - Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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



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

Sommario/riassunto

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.