Global Warming in Local Discourses

Michael Brüggemann, Simone Rödder

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Global news on anthropogenic climate change is shaped by international politics, scientific reports and voices from transnational protest movements. This timely volume asks how local communities engage with these transnational discourses.



The chapters in this volume present a range of compelling case studies drawn from a broad cross-section of local communities around the world, reflecting diverse cultural and geographical contexts. From Greenland to northern Tanzania, it illuminates how different understandings evolve in diverse cultural and geographical contexts while also revealing some common patterns of how people make sense of climate change. Global Warming in Local Discourses constitutes a significant, new contribution to understanding the multi-perspectivity of our debates on climate change, further highlighting the need for interdisciplinary study within this area.



It will be a valuable resource to those studying climate and science communication; those interested in understanding the various roles played by journalism, NGOs, politics and science in shaping public understandings of climate change, as well as those exploring the intersections of the global and the local in debates on the sustainable transformation of societies.

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• Vladimir Vernadsky
• Media studies

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• Publié par: Open Book Publishers
• Date de parution: 08 décembre 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783749386
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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GLOBAL WARMING IN LOCAL DISCOURSES

Global Warming in Local Discourses
How Communities around the World Make Sense of Climate Change
Edited by
Michael Brüggemann and Simone Rödder





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Global Communications vol. 1 | ISSN 2634-7245 (Print) | ISSN 2634-7253 (Online)
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Contents
Acknowledgements
vii
Author Biographies
ix
We are Climate Change: Climate Debates Between Transnational and Local Discourses
Michael Brüggemann and Simone Rödder
1
The Case of “Costa del Nuuk”: Greenlanders Make Sense of Global Climate Change
Freja C. Eriksen
31
Communication and Knowledge Transfer on Climate Change in the Philippines
Thomas Friedrich
77
Sense-Making of COP 21 among Rural and City Residents: The Role of Space in Media Reception
Imke Hoppe, Fenja De Silva-Schmidt, Michael Brüggemann, and Dorothee Arlt
121
What Does Climate Change Mean to Us, the Maasai? How Climate-Change Discourse is Translated in Maasailand, Northern Tanzania
Sara de Wit
161
Living on the Frontier: Laypeople’s Perceptions and Communication of Climate Change in the Coastal Region of Bangladesh
Shameem Mahmud
209
Extreme Weather Events and Local Impacts of Climate Change: The Scientific Perspective
Friederike E. L. Otto
245
List of Illustrations
263
Index
265

Acknowledgements
Editing this book would not have been possible without the continuous support from a number of people whom we thank very much. Obviously, the volume would be nothing without the chapter authors’ willingness to condense bigger research projects into book chapters and going through several rounds of revisions. We also acknowledge the great support of our student assistant, Joana Kollert, in putting this book together. Thank you to the anonymous reviewers of the individual chapters and overall book concept, and to our colleague in Hamburg, Michael Schnegg, who has provided valuable feedback on the introduction. Kelley Friel has provided support in copy-editing the chapters into better English. We are indebted to Sven Engesser who has taken up the responsibility for this book among the editors of the Global Communications Book Series. Also, we thank Alessandra Tosi from Open Book Publishers who has supported the book and the book series over the years, and who never lost patience with us as the project proceeded slower than expected. We would also like to thank the support team at Open Book Publishers: Adele Kreager, for copy-editing, Anna Gatti, for cover design, and Melissa Purkiss, for typesetting. Finally, we acknowledge funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy—EXC 2037 ‘CLICCS—Climate, Climatic Change, and Society’—Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), Universität Hamburg.

Author Biographies
Dorothe e Arlt has been teaching and researching at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Bern as a Senior Assistant since 2013. Her research focuses on political communication, media in the context of flight and migration, science, energy and climate communication, as well as media reception and impact. Dorothee Arlt studied Applied Media Science at the Technical University of Ilmenau.
Michael Brüggemann is Professor of Communication Research, Climate and Science Communication at Universität Hamburg and Principal Investigator in the Cluster of Excellence CLICCS (Climate, Climatic Change, and Society). His research explores the transformations of journalism, political and science communication from a comparative perspective. For recent publications, see www.bruegge.net . Commentary on climate communication may be found at www.climatematters.de .
Fenja De Silva-Schmidt received her MA in Journalism and Communication Studies at Universität Hamburg, where she is also currently working as a Research Associate to the Chair of Communication Research, Climate and Science Communication. In her PhD dissertation, she analyzes how media coverage and interpersonal communication influence knowledge acquisition about climate politics.
Sara de Wit joined the Institute of Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS), University of Oxford, as a postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2017. She is currently part of the Forecasts for Anticipatory Humanitarian Action (FATHUM) project. Trained in Anthropology and African Studies, Sara has a strong empirical orientation and has carried out “ethnographies of aid”—at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies (STS), development theories, environmental anthropology and postcolonial studies—in which she broadly focused on how globally circulating ideas (such as climate change and notions of “modernity” and “development”) travel, and what happens when they are translated by varying actors along the translation chain.
Freja C. Eriksen holds an MA in Journalism, Media and Globalization from Aarhus University and Universität Hamburg. Since concluding her thesis on sense-making of climate change in Greenland, she has become a climate and energy transition correspondent for Clean Energy Wire in Berlin. Before this, she worked as an editor at a Danish online news site covering the public sector. As a freelance journalist, she has researched the illegal international trade in electronic waste. She holds a BA in Rhetoric from the University of Copenhagen.
Thomas Friedrich received his doctorate in Social and Cultural Anthropology at Universität Hamburg within the framework of the interdisciplinary Cluster of Excellence “Climate System Analysis and Prediction”. Previously, he was a fellow of the research group “The Cultural Constitution of Causal Cognition: Re-Integrating Anthropology into the Cognitive Sciences” at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Bielefeld. He was a lecturer at the University of Cologne and the Ruhr-University of Bochum, and is now a researcher at the Institute for Social-Ecological Research in Frankfurt.
Imke Hoppe is a senior researcher at the Chair of Journalism and Communication Science at Universität Hamburg. She holds a PhD in Communication Science from TU Ilmenau. Her research interest lies in climate change and sustainability communication, with a special focus on digital media. Her research methods combine qualitative and quantitative methods of empirical communication research.
Shameem Mahmud works as a part-time lecturer in Media and Communication Research Methods and Journalism Cultures at the Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies, Universität Hamburg. He holds a PhD in Communication Studies from Universität Hamburg and specializes in public perceptions and communication of climate-change risks. Shameem also studied at the Universities of Dhaka, Bangladesh; Aarhus, Denmark; and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His research focuses on environmental communication and journalism cultures. He previously worked at the University of Dhaka, and as a journalist in Bangladesh.
Friederike E. L. Otto is the Acting Director of the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at the University of Oxford and an Associate Professor at the ECI Global Climate Science Programme. Her main research interests are extreme weather events and improving and developing methodologies to answer the question “whether, and to what extent, external climate drivers alter the likelihood of extreme weather to occur”. She furthermore investigates the policy implications of this emerging scientific field. Friederike earned a Diploma in Physics from the University of Potsdam and a PhD in the Philosop