The Social Construction of Climate Change: Power, Knowledge, Norms, DiscoursesMary E. Pettenger Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007 M01 1 - 255 pages This text focuses on the processes of social construction of climate change, primarily from the late 1980s, when climate change became an increasingly slient issue, to the present. It is through this process of change that it hopes to identify the emerging forces arising from the structures of power and knowledge. |
Contents
Power Knowledge and the Social Construction | 1 |
Constructing Themselves | 51 |
Balancing the Norms | 75 |
The US in | 99 |
Competing Discourses | 123 |
On the Territorialization | 149 |
Trust Through Participation? Problems of Knowledge | 173 |
The Case | 197 |
The Constructions of Climate Change | 235 |
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