Towards a cultural politics of climate change [electronic resource]
edited by Harriet Bulkeley, Matthew Paterson and Johannes Stripple.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- 1 online resource (231 p.)
Table of contents: Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Change: The European Commission's Climate Campaign as a Technique of Government Chapter 3. Devising Low-Carbon Desires in the Australian Urban Economy Chapter 4. Low-Carbon Devices and Desires in Community Housing Retrofit Chapter 5. Caring for the Low-Carbon Self: The Government of Self and Others in the World as a Gas Greenhouse Chapter 6. Grief, Loss and the Cultural Politics of Climate Change. Chapter 7. Culture, Technology, and Transport: Navigating a Path to Low-Carbon Urban mobilities in the United States Chapter 8. "The everyday choices we make matter": Urban climate politics and the post politics of responsibility and action; Chapter 9. Strategic engagements with resistance against energy-efficient devices exploring the hidden politics of comfort desires in housing Chapter 10. The directionality of desire in the economy of qualities: the case of retailers, refrigeration and reconstituted orange juice Chapter 11. The Making of a Zero-Carbon Home. Chapter 12. Wind power activism: epistemic struggles in the formation of eco-Ethical Selves at vattenfall Chapter 13. Conclusions
Includes references and index.
"This book develops new perspectives on the cultural politics of climate change and its implications for responding to this challenge."