ABSTRACT
Understanding individual emotive responses to climate change as embedded within broader collective affective orientations, this chapter discusses digital modes of affective governance and their role in political polarization on climate change. Ranging from climate denialism, ‘petro-masculinities,’ and forms of ecofascism, to Gen Z TikTok climate activism and digitally mobilized Fridays for the Future climate strikes, globally circulating digital affective publics are significantly shaping our capacities for collective action on climate change. This chapter explores the global flows of the corporate and algorithmic governing of collective affect on climate change, including in relation to affective encounters with climate change through weather events. These modes of global affective governance are discussed in relationship to communication and education on climate change more broadly, including the polarizations and priorities of education policy.
