Anita Girvan

Carbon Footprints as Cultural-Ecological Metaphors (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

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: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317218647
• Artikelnr.: 49995518

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