Philip Smith is Professor of Sociology and co-Director of the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology. His work explores the meaningful nature of social life as it plays out in a communicative public sphere. He is author of Why War? (2005) and Punishment and Culture (2008) and co-author of Incivility: The Rude Stranger in Everyday Life (Cambridge University Press, 2010), as well as a dozen other books and edited collections.
1. Introduction: the problem of climate change
2. Climate change as social drama
3. Narrating global warming
4. An inconvenient truth: the power of ethos
5. Climate change art: an illustrative failure?
6. 'Climategate' and other controversies
7. The climate conference as theatre
8. Local dramas: the places of climate change
9. Conclusion: the show must go on.
