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Record Nr.

UNISA996599569703316

Autore

Callison Candis <1971->

Titolo

How climate change comes to matter : the communal life of facts / / Candis Callison

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2014

ISBN

1-4780-9198-3

0-8223-5787-9

0-8223-7606-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Collana

Experimental futures

Classificazione

MK 8900

Disciplina

363.738/740973

Soggetti

Climatic changes - Social aspects - United States

Climatic changes - Political aspects - United States

Climatic changes - Press coverage - United States

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

The Inuit gift -- Reporting on climate change -- Blessing the facts -- Negotiating risk, expertise, and near-advocacy -- What gets measured, gets managed -- Epilogue: rethinking public engagement & collaboration.

Sommario/riassunto

A rich ethnographic account describing the processes by which climate change comes to matter collectively and individually, and how vernacular explanations of climate change reflect diverse ways of knowing and caring about the world.