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Towards a cultural politics of climate change : devices, desires, and dissent /

This book develops new perspectives on the cultural politics of climate change and its implications for responding to this challenge.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bulkeley, Harriet, 1972- (Editor ), Paterson, Matthew, 1967- (Editor ), Stripple, Johannes (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover ; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 CHANGE: The European Commission's Climate Campaign as a Technique of Government; 3 Devising Low-Carbon Desires in the Australian Urban Economy; 4 Low-Carbon Devices and Desires in Community Housing Retrofit; 5 Caring for the Low-Carbon Self: The Government of Self and Others in the World as a Gas Greenhouse; 6 Grief, Loss and the Cultural Politics of Climate Change.
  • 7 Culture, Technology, and Transport: Navigating a Path to Low-Carbon Urban Mobilities in the United States8 "The Everyday Choices We Make Matter": Urban Climate Politics and the Postpolitics of Responsibility and Action; 9 Strategic Engagements with Resistance Against Energy-Efficient Devices
  • Exploring the Hidden Politics of Comfort Desires in Housing; 10 The Directionality of Desire in the Economy of Qualities: The Case of Retailers, Refrigeration and Reconstituted Orange Juice; 11 The Making of a Zero-Carbon Home.
  • 12 Wind Power Activism: Epistemic Struggles in the Formation of Eco-Ethical Selves at Vattenfall13 Conclusions; References; Index.