Media and Climate Change: Making Sense of Press Narratives, Ganapathy Deepti
Автор: Crystal, David Название: Making sense ISBN: 1781256020 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781781256022 Издательство: Profile Рейтинг: Цена: 12660.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The world`s best-known authority on the English language reveals the secrets and subtleties of its grammar.
Автор: Ghosh Amitav Название: The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable ISBN: 022652681X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226526812 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 15840.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability--at the level of literature, history, and politics--to grasp the scale and violence of climate change.
The extreme nature of today's climate events, Ghosh asserts, make them peculiarly resistant to contemporary modes of thinking and imagining. This is particularly true of serious literary fiction: hundred-year storms and freakish tornadoes simply feel too improbable for the novel; they are automatically consigned to other genres. In the writing of history, too, the climate crisis has sometimes led to gross simplifications; Ghosh shows that the history of the carbon economy is a tangled global story with many contradictory and counterintuitive elements.
Ghosh ends by suggesting that politics, much like literature, has become a matter of personal moral reckoning rather than an arena of collective action. But to limit fiction and politics to individual moral adventure comes at a great cost. The climate crisis asks us to imagine other forms of human existence--a task to which fiction, Ghosh argues, is the best suited of all cultural forms. His book serves as a great writer's summons to confront the most urgent task of our time.
An evidence-based look at the subject of climate change that gives readers an informative, scientific, and calm overview of what's happening to planet Earth.
What is the difference between weather and climate?
Understand how Earth's climate has always experienced warmer periods and ice ages
Learn how Earth's orbit around the Sun, solar activity, and volcanoes can naturally increase Earth's temperature
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
How do cars, planes, and electricity production create too much carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases?
Discover how warmer temperatures are affecting people, animals, and plants
How can we reduce greenhouse gas emissions?
Explore how carbon capture, planting trees, and using renewable energy can make a difference
How can we prepare for a warmer world?
Discussions about climate change and its effects can be overwhelming for young people causing fear and anxiety. This book explores this essential topic clearly and scientifically, providing kids with a detailed explanation of what is happening to our planet while giving them the tools and the hope they need to help change Earth's future.
There's no Planet B. Climate change is happening, and no one is more ready to tackle this issue than kids. In recent times, discussion of climate change and its effects has begun to cause fear and anxiety in many young people. This new book--produced with assistance from the Royal Geographical Society of the UK--gives an evidence-based, informative, and calm overview of what's happened in Earth's past. This book also examines what's happening now, what could happen in the future, and what kids, adults, and governments worldwide can do to help protect our planet. Plenty of science mixed with practical tips will help everyone make sense of climate change.
Автор: Thomas, Vinod|| Название: Climate Change and Natural Disasters ISBN: 1138567353 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138567351 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 42870.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The start of the new millennium will be remembered for deadly climate-related disasters - the great floods in Thailand in 2011, Super Storm Sandy in the United States in 2012, and Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines in 2013, to name a few. In 2014, 17.5 million people were displaced by climate-related disasters, ten times more than the 1.7 million displaced by geophysical hazards.
Название: Narratives of Low-Carbon Transitions (Open Access) ISBN: 1138311588 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138311589 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 148010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book presents empirical evidence reflecting the complex challenges and potential consequences of low-carbon pathways, enabling us to draw valuable lessons on the risks and uncertainties we face in choosing these pathways, as well as ways to manage them and ultimately enable their sustainable and lasting social and environmental effects.
Автор: Ansgar Nunning, Kai Marcel Sicks Название: Turning Points: Concepts and Narratives of Change in Literature and Other Media ISBN: 3110297116 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110297119 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Цена: 210690.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: At times of crisis and revolution such as ours, diagnoses of crucial junctures and ruptures – ‘turning points’ – in the continuous flow of history are more prevalent than ever. Analysing literary, cinematic and other narratives, the volume seeks to understand the meanings conveyed by different concepts of turning points, the alternative concepts to which they are opposed when used to explain historical change, and those contexts in which they are unmasked as false and over-simplifying constructions.
Автор: Marjo Buitelaar, Hetty Zock Название: Religious Voices in Self-Narratives: Making Sense of Life in Times of Transition ISBN: 1614511713 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781614511717 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Цена: 185890.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: In present-day pluralistic and individualized societies, the question of how individuals appropriate religious traditions has become particularly relevant. In this volume, psychologists, anthropologists, and historians examine the presence of religious voices in narrative constructions of the self. The focus is on the multiple ways religious stories and practices feature in self-narratives about major life transitions. The contributions explore the ways in which such voices inform the accommodation and interpretation of these transitions.
Автор: Ansgar Nunning, Kai Marcel Sicks Название: Turning Points: Concepts and Narratives of Change in Literature and Other Media ISBN: 3110296942 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110296945 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Рейтинг: Цена: 123910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: At times of crisis and revolution such as ours, diagnoses of crucial junctures and ruptures - `turning points` - in the continuous flow of history are more prevalent than ever.
Автор: Ernesto Javier Martinez Название: On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility ISBN: 0804783403 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804783408 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 24010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
On Making Sense juxtaposes texts produced by black, Latino, and Asian queer writers and artists to understand how knowledge is acquired and produced in contexts of racial and gender oppression. From James Baldwin's 1960s novel Another Country to Margaret Cho's turn-of-the-century stand-up comedy, these works all exhibit a preoccupation with intelligibility, or the labor of making sense of oneself and of making sense to others. In their efforts to "make sense," these writers and artists argue against merely being accepted by society on society's terms, but articulate a desire to confront epistemic injustice—an injustice that affects people in their capacity as knowers and as communities worthy of being known.
The book speaks directly to critical developments in feminist and queer studies, including the growing ambivalence to antirealist theories of identity and knowledge. In so doing, it draws on decolonial and realist theory to offer a new framework to understand queer writers and artists of color as dynamic social theorists.
Автор: Marjo Buitelaar, Hetty Zock Название: Religious Voices in Self-Narratives: Making Sense of Life in Times of Transition ISBN: 1614512191 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781614512196 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Цена: 148700.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In present-day pluralistic and individualized societies, the question of how individuals appropriate religious traditions has become particularly relevant. In this volume, psychologists, anthropologists, and historians examine the presence of religious voices in narrative constructions of the self. The focus is on the multiple ways religious stories and practices feature in self-narratives about major life transitions. The contributions explore the ways in which such voices inform the accommodation and interpretation of these transitions. In addition to being inspired by Dan McAdams’ approach to life stories as ‘personal myths’ that inform us about the quests of individuals for a satisfactory balance between agency and communion, most of the contributors have found the theory of ‘the dialogical self’ developed by Hubert Hermans particularly useful. Thus the contributions explore the ways in which identity formation is shaped by internal dialogues between personal and collective voices in the context of the specific constellations of power in which these voices are embedded. The volume is divided into three parts addressing theoretical and methodological considerations, religious resources in narratives on life transitions, and religious positioning in diaspora.
