Global warming in local discourses : : how communities around the world make sense of climate change / / edited by Michael Brüggemann and Simone Rödder.

• Superior document: Global communications ; volume 1
• TeilnehmendeR: Brüggemann, Michael,; Rödder, Simone,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, UK : : Open Book Publishers,, 2020.; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Global communications ; volume 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (289 pages)

Local discourses around the world draw on multiple resources tomake sense of a “travelling idea” such as climate change, includingdirect experiences of extreme weather, mediated reports, educationalNGO activities, and pre-existing values and belief systems. There is nosimple link between scientific literacy, climate-change awareness, and asustainable lifestyle, but complex entanglements of transnational andlocal discourses and of scientific and other (religious, moral etc.) ways ofmaking sense of climate change. As the case studies in this volume show,this entanglement of ways of sense-making results in both localizationsof transnational discourses and the climatization of local discourses:aspects of the travelling idea of climate change are well-received,integrated, transformed, or rejected. Our comparison reveals a majorfactor that shapes the local appropriation of the concept of anthropogenicclimate change: the fit of prior local interpretations, norms and practiceswith travelling ideas influences whether they are likely to be embracedor rejected.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements -- Author Biographies -- We are Climate Change: Climate Debates Between Transnational and Local Discourses / Michael Brüggemann and Simone Rödder -- The Case of "Costa del Nuuk": Greenlanders Make Sense of Global Climate Change / Freja C. Eriksen -- Communication and Knowledge Transfer on Climate Change in the Philippines: The Case of Palawan / Thomas Friedrich -- Sense-Making of COP 21 among Rural and City Residents: The Role of Space in Media Reception / Imke Hoppe, Fenja De Silva-Schmidt, Michael Brüggemann and Dorothee Arlt -- What Does Climate Change Mean to Us, the Maasai? How Climate-Change Discourse is Translated in Maasailand, Northern Tanzania / Sara de Wit -- Living on the Frontier: Laypeople's Perceptions and Communication of Climate Change in the Coastal Region of Bangladesh / Shameem Mahmud -- Extreme Weather Events and Local Impacts of Climate Change: The Scientific Perspective / Friederike E. L. Otto -- List of Illustrations -- Index.