Carbon Footprints as Cultural-Ecological Metaphors

Carbon Footprints as Cultural-Ecological Metaphors
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 200
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ISBN-10 : 9781317218654
ISBN-13 : 1317218655
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Book Synopsis Carbon Footprints as Cultural-Ecological Metaphors by : Anita Girvan

Download or read book Carbon Footprints as Cultural-Ecological Metaphors written by Anita Girvan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an examination of carbon footprint metaphors, this books demonstrates the ways in which climate change and other ecological issues are culturally and materially constituted through metaphor. The carbon footprint metaphor has achieved a ubiquitous presence in Anglo-North American public contexts since the turn of the millennium, yet this metaphor remains under-examined as a crucial mediator of political responses to the urgent crisis of climate change. Existing books and articles on the carbon footprint typically treat this metaphor as a quantifying metric, with little attention to the shifting mediations and practices of the carbon footprint as a metaphor. This gap echoes a wider gap in understanding metaphors as key figures in mediating more-than-human relations at a time when such relations profoundly matter. As a timely intervention, this book addresses this gap by using insights from environmental humanities and political ecology to discuss carbon footprint metaphors in popular and public texts. This book will be of great interest to researchers and students of environmental humanities, political ecology, environmental communication, and metaphor studies.


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