The Social Construction of Climate Change: Power, Knowledge, Norms, Discourses
Mary E. Pettenger
Feb 2016 · Routledge
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Individuals, international organizations and states are calling for the world to confront climate change. Efforts such as the Kyoto Protocol have produced intractable disputes and are deemed inadequate. This volume adopts two constructivist perspectives - norm-centred and discourse - to explore the social construction of climate change from a broad, theoretical level to particular cases. The contributors contend that climate change must be understood from the context of social settings, and that we ignore at our peril how power and knowledge structures are generated. They offer a greater understanding of why current efforts to mitigate climate change have failed and provide academics and policy makers with a new understanding of this important topic.
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Mary E. Pettenger, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Western Oregon University, Monmouth Oregon, USA