Image Politics of Climate Change
Visualizations, Imaginations, Documentations
Scientific research on climate change has given rise to a variety of images picturing climate change. These range from colorful expert graphics, model visualizations, photographs of extreme weather events like floods, droughts or melting ice, symbols like polar bears, to animated and interactive visualizations. Climate change graphics have not only increased knowledge about the subject, they have begun to influence popular awareness of global weather events. The status of climate pictures today is particularly crucial, as global climate change as a long-term process cannot be seen.
When images are widely distributed, they are able to shape how the world is thought about and seen. It is this implicit basic assumption of the power of images to influence reality that this book addresses: today's images might become the blueprint for tomorrow's realities.
»Image Politics of Climate Change« combines a wide interdisciplinary range of perspectives and questions, treated here in sixteen interdisciplinary case studies. The author's specializations include both visual practice and theory: in the fields of climate sciences, computer graphics, art, curating, art history and visual studies, communication and cultural science, environmental and science & technology studies. The close interlinking of these viewpoints promotes in-depth insights into issues of production and analysis of climate visualization.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
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Table of Contents
Seiten 5 - 8 -
Image Politics of Climate Change: Introduction
Seiten 9 - 26 -
Chapter 1. The Epistemic Value of Visualization in Climate Sciences
The Creation of Global Imaginaries: The Antarctic Ozone Hole and the Isoline Tradition in the Atmospheric Sciences
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Images for Data Analysis: The Role of Visualization in Climate Research Processes
Seiten 55 - 78 -
Chapter 2. Communicating Results: The Status of Climate Expert Graphs in IPCC Reports
"Tricks," Hockey Sticks, and the Myth of Natural Inscription: How the Visual Rhetoric of Climate gate Conflated Climate with Character
Seiten 81 - 104 -
The Color of Risk: Expert Judgment and Diagrammatic Reasoning in the IPCC's 'Burning Embers'
Seiten 105 - 124 -
Chapter 3. Images of Climate Change in the Press and on the Web
Between Risk, Beauty and the Sublime: The Visualization of Climate Change in Media Coverage during COP 15 in Copenhagen 2009
Seiten 127 - 152 -
Twist and Shout: Images and Graphs in Skeptical Climate Media
Seiten 153 - 186 -
Towards an Interactive Visual Understanding of Climate Change Findings on the Net: Promises and Challenges
Seiten 187 - 210 -
Color Plates
Seiten 211 - 222 -
Chapter 4. From Vision to Action? Making the Invisible Imaginable through Art and Photography
Picturing the Clima(c)tic: Greenpeace and the Representational Politics of Climate Change Communication
Seiten 225 - 248 -
The Uncanny Polar Bear: Activists Visually Attack an Overly Emotionalized Image Clone
Seiten 249 - 272 -
How Photography Matters: On Producing Meaning in Photobooks on Climate Change
Seiten 273 - 298 -
The Pensive Photograph as Agent: What Can Non-Illustrative Images Do to Galvanize Public Support for Climate Change Action?
Seiten 299 - 322 -
Chapter 5. Images of Climate Control
Picturing the State of the Nation's Environment: Early Aerial Photography in the United States from the 1930s to the late 1960s
Seiten 325 - 344 -
Picturing Climate Control: Visualizing the Unimaginable
Seiten 345 - 362 -
Images of Feasibility: On the Viscourse of Climate Engineering
Seiten 363 - 382 -
Contributing Authors
Seiten 383 - 388
21 March 2014, 388 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-2610-0
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