ABSTRACT
Climate activists who draw on trickster manoeuvres by inverting and playing with existing rules, adopting false identities, and brazenly playing with the profit-making rules of the marketplace may have more success in holding corporate tricksters to account. The trope of the trickster gestures towards the complex, unpredictable and synergistic energies at work in climate change but also plays a key role in wild time. Climate change has assumed its own ‘narrative turn’ in litigation, fiction and activism. Scientific narratives of climate change, with their reliance on modelling, contain predictions of what is to come. The narratives propounded by climate change sceptics and their supporters combine bland assurances with largely discredited science. Legal narratives are more limited in their capacity to outline and explore the dimensions of climate change and wild time. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
