The power of narrative : climate skepticism and the deconstruction of science /
"Narrative is the stuff of community. The book embarks on a quest to understand how narrative works to take an inchoate group of individuals and turn it into a cohesive social movement. To understand the power of narrative, the authors examine the particular phenomenon of climate skepticism. So...
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Format: | Online Book |
Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2020]
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Access: | Online version |
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Summary: | "Narrative is the stuff of community. The book embarks on a quest to understand how narrative works to take an inchoate group of individuals and turn it into a cohesive social movement. To understand the power of narrative, the authors examine the particular phenomenon of climate skepticism. Somehow, the narrative of climate skepticism has been able to forge a movement and stake a challenge to the hegemony of the larger community of scientists on what is ostensibly a matter of science. The book asks: how is this achieved? What is the narrative of climate skepticism, and how has it evolved over time and diffused from place to place? Is it possible that this narrative shares with other narratives an underlying genetic code of sorts, a story that is more fundamental than all of these? How has the climate skeptical narrative contended with its other, which is the narrative-network of climate change science, and forged its own social movement? The outcome of this struggle between climate science and its denial has implications for society that go far beyond climatology. Using narrative analysis, the authors demonstrate how the narrative lens allows us unique insights into these questions. The book takes the reader on a journey, across times and places and social realms and, throughout, we see the power of narrative at work, making believers, or skeptics, of us all"-- |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 188 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780197542118 0197542115 0197542123 9780197542125 9780197542132 0197542131 9780197542101 |
Access: | Electronic access restricted to Villanova University patrons. |