Amanda Rohloff

Climate Change, Moral Panics and Civilization

Herausgeber: Saramago, André

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In recent years, interest in climate change within sociology and media studies has rapidly increased and yet there is still relatively little published material in the field. This book contributes to filling this gap by examining how climate change has developed, critically assessing past and current interventions from a sociological perspective.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780367507701
• ISBN-10: 0367507706
• Artikelnr.: 58891257

Autorenporträt

Amanda Rohloff was a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sociology at the School of Social Sciences at Brunel University, UK. André Saramago is an Auxiliary Professor of International Relations at Lusíada University-North (Porto), Portugal.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1 Introduction
2 On Climate Change, 'Nature' and the 'Environment'
3 Theories of Social Processes and Social Change
4 Methodology
5 Historical Analysis (Part One): Climate Change and Ecological Civilizing
Processes
6 Historical Analysis (Part Two): Climate Change and Moral Panics
7 Moral Panics as Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes: A Comparative
Analysis
8 Conclusion