ABSTRACT
Action on climate change, like any other kind of politics, consists largely of a process of continuous interpretation and reinterpretation. How to understand the climate crisis? How to understand the market environmentalist policies that have become the dominant official response to it? How to understand groups and networks with which one wants to build alliances? Such questions demand openness to whatever languages, cultures, disciplines and tools can help make sense of the current impasse and open up ways out of it. This chapter draws on three interpretive approaches from the academic world that all have contributions to make.
