The Social Construction of Climate Change: Power, Knowledge, Norms, Discourses

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Mary 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.

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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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Mary E. Pettenger, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Western Oregon University, Monmouth Oregon, USA

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