How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts

Candis Callison

Published by Duke University Press 2014

How Climate Change Comes to Matter

The Communal Life of Facts

Candis Callison

In the series Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822376064

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About this book

A rich ethnographic account describing the processes by which climate change comes to matter collectively and individually, and how vernacular explanations of climate change reflect diverse ways of knowing and caring about the world.

Author / Editor information

Candis Callison is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of British Columbia.

Reviews

-- Jonathan Bond Vancouver Weekly

-- R. A. Delgado Jr. Choice

-- Elizabeth Marino Anthropos

-- Noel Salmond Reading Religion

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. The Inuit Gift Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
2. Reporting on Climate Change Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
3. Blessing the Facts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
4. Negotiating Risk, Expertise, and Near-Advocacy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
5. What Gets Measured Gets Managed Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
EPILOGUE. Rethinking Public Engagement and Collaboration Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Appendix. A Decade of Climate Change Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 328

eBook

Published: December 5, 2014
ISBN: 9780822376064