Anita Girvan

Carbon Footprints as Cultural-Ecological Metaphors

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Produktbeschreibung

Through an examination of carbon footprint metaphors this books demonstrates the ways in which climate change and other ecological issues are culturally and materially constituted through metaphor.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9781138658066
• ISBN-10: 1138658065
• Artikelnr.: 49619918

Autorenporträt

Anita Girvan is a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Global Studies and teaches in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria in Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction - How Big is Yours?
PART I
1. Cultural-Material Resonances of 'Carbon' and 'Footprint' and the
Emergence of a new Compound Metaphor
2. Mise-en-Scene: Metaphor, Affect, Politics, Ecology
PART II - A Tale of Three Footprints
1. Carbon Subjectivity
2. Carbon Citizenship
3. Carbon Vitality
CONCLUSION - Fostering Critical Eco-Aesthetic Literacies