ABSTRACT
Climate Change Temporalities explores how various timescales, timespans, intervals, rhythms, cycles, and changes in acceleration are at play in climate change discourses. It argues that nuanced, detailed, and specific understandings and concepts are required to handle the challenges of a climatically changed world, politically and socially as well as scientifically. Rather than reflecting abstractly on theories of temporality, this edited collection explores a variety of timescales and temporalities from narratives, experience, popular culture, and everyday life in addition to science and history - and the entanglements between them. The chapters are clustered into three main sections, exploring a range of genres, such as questionnaires, interviews, magazines, news media, television series, aquariums, and popular science books to critically examine how and where climate change understandings are formed. The book also includes chapters historising notions of climate and temporality by exploring scientific debates and practices.
Climate Change Temporalities will be of great interest to students and scholars of humanistic climate change research, environmental humanities, studies of temporality and historicity, cultural studies, cultural history, and popular culture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |14 pages
Introduction
part 1|54 pages
Vernacular notions of climate change temporality
chapter 2|15 pages
‘Where is global warming when you need it?’
chapter 3|17 pages
The great re-skilling
chapter 4|20 pages
In the shadow of apocalyptic futures
part 2|54 pages
Mediating climate change temporality
chapter 6|17 pages
The prophetic tone in True Detective
part 3|54 pages
Cultural histories of climate change temporality
chapter 10|19 pages
Origin myths from the cultural historical archive of the Anthropocene
part 4|8 pages
Conclusion