This edited collection questions established categories, routines, and practices that presently constitute accepted solutions to tackling climate change-a regime the authors call, 'Climate, Inc.'-and offers alternative routes forward. Key to the enterprise is unleashing the political imagination: the ability to grasp a larger arc of collective experience and interpret its meaning for the choices we face. This involves disciplined inspiration, creativity, and ingenuity that can help us cognitively and emotionally enter into alternative futures. This volume will be of great interest to students…mehr
This edited collection questions established categories, routines, and practices that presently constitute accepted solutions to tackling climate change-a regime the authors call, 'Climate, Inc.'-and offers alternative routes forward. Key to the enterprise is unleashing the political imagination: the ability to grasp a larger arc of collective experience and interpret its meaning for the choices we face. This involves disciplined inspiration, creativity, and ingenuity that can help us cognitively and emotionally enter into alternative futures. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, global environmental politics and environmental studies in general.
Paul Wapner is Professor of Global Environmental Politics in the School of International Service at American University, USA. Hilal Elver is the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, and Global Distinguished Fellow at the UCLA School of Law Resnick Food Law and Policy Program, USA.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction: Reimagining Climate Change 2. The Sociological Imagination of Climate Futures 3. Climate Security in the Anthropocene: 'Scaling up' the Human Niche 4. Climate Change, Policy Knowledge, and the Temporal Imagination 5. Modernity on Steroids: The Promise and Perils of Climate Protection in the Arabian Peninsula 6. Overcoming Food Insecurities in an Era of Climate Change 7. Reimagining Climate Engineering: The Politics of Tinkering with the Sky 8. Climate of the Poor: Suffering and the Moral Imperative to Reimagine Resilience 9. Re-Imagining Radical Climate Justice 10. The Promise of Climate Fiction: Imagination, Story Telling, and the Politics of the Future
1. Introduction: Reimagining Climate Change 2. The Sociological Imagination of Climate Futures 3. Climate Security in the Anthropocene: 'Scaling up' the Human Niche 4. Climate Change, Policy Knowledge, and the Temporal Imagination 5. Modernity on Steroids: The Promise and Perils of Climate Protection in the Arabian Peninsula 6. Overcoming Food Insecurities in an Era of Climate Change 7. Reimagining Climate Engineering: The Politics of Tinkering with the Sky 8. Climate of the Poor: Suffering and the Moral Imperative to Reimagine Resilience 9. Re-Imagining Radical Climate Justice 10. The Promise of Climate Fiction: Imagination, Story Telling, and the Politics of the Future
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