Climate Change Temporalities; Explorations in Vernacular, Popular, and Scientific Discourse PDF
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Climate Change Temporalities Climate Change Temporalities explores how various timescales, timespans, in- tervals, rhythms, cycles, and changes in acceleration are at play in climate change discourses. It argues that nuanced, detailed, and specific understand- ings and concepts are required to handle the challenges of a climatically changed world, politically and socially as well as scientifically. Rather than reflecting abstractly on theories of temporality, this edited collection ex- plores a variety of timescales and temporalities from narratives, experience, popular culture, and everyday life in addition to science and history – and the entanglements between them. The chapters are clustered into three main sections, exploring a range of genres, such as questionnaires, interviews, magazines, news media, television series, aquariums, and popular science books to c ritically examine how and where climate change understandings are formed. The book also includes chapters historising notions of climate and temporality by exploring scientific debates and practices. Climate Change Temporalities will be of great interest to students and schol- ars of humanistic climate change research, environmental humanities, studies of temporality and historicity, cultural studies, cultural history, and popular culture. Kyrre Kverndokk is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. Marit Ruge Bjærke is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cultural Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. Anne Eriksen is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Oslo, Norway. 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Nelson Ecological Law and the Planetary Crisis A Legal Guide for Harmony on Earth Geoffrey Garver From Environmental to Ecological Law Kirsten Anker; Peter D Burdon; Geoffrey Garver; Michelle Maloney and Carla Sbert Climate Change Temporalities Explorations in Vernacular, Popular, and Scientific Discourse Edited by Kyrre Kverndokk, Marit Ruge Bjærke, and Anne Eriksen https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Explorations-in- Environmental- Studies/book-series/REES Climate Change Temporalities Explorations in Vernacular, Popular, and Scientific Discourse Edited by Kyrre Kverndokk, Marit Ruge Bjærke, and Anne Eriksen First published 2021 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2021 selection and editorial matter, Kyrre Kverndokk, Marit Ruge Bjærke, and Anne Eriksen; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Kyrre Kverndokk, Marit Ruge Bjærke, and Anne Eriksen to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record has been requested for this book ISBN: 978-0-367-47960-2 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-367-69640-5 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-03741-5 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo by codeMantra Contents List of contributors vii List of illustrations ix Acknowledgements xi Introduction 1 1 Climate change temporalities: narratives, genres, and tropes 3 KYRRE KVERNDOKK AND ANNE ERIKSEN PART 1 Vernacular notions of climate change temporality 15 2 ‘Where is global warming when you need it?’: the role of immediacy in vernacular constructions of climate change 17 DIANE E. GOLDSTEIN 3 The great re-skilling: understandings of generation, tradition, and nostalgia in everyday-life climate activism 32 LONE REE MILKÆR 4 In the shadow of apocalyptic futures: climate change as a cultural trope in vernacular discourse 49 CAMILLA ASPLUND INGEMARK vi Contents PART 2 Mediating climate change temporality 69 5 The extreme summer of 2018: Norwegian weather news and the politics of weatherlore 71 KYRRE KVERNDOKK 6 The prophetic tone in True Detective: sensing the time of the future climate disaster 89 ISAK WINKEL HOLM 7 Advocating equilibrium: on climate change at public aquariums 106 LARS KAIJSER PART 3 Cultural histories of climate change temporality 123 8 The sixth extinction: naming time in a new way 125 MARIT RUGE BJÆRKE 9 Smoke, smells, and seaweeds in eighteenth-century Norway 141 ANNE ERIKSEN 10 Origin myths from the cultural historical archive of the Anthropocene: Vico, Burnet and the time of the deluge 158 JOHN ØDEMARK PART 4 Conclusion 177 11 Living the climate change 179 MARIT RUGE BJÆRKE Index 185 Contributors Marit Ruge Bjærke is a postdoctoral research fellow in Cultural Studies at the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies, and Religion, University of Bergen, Norway. Bjærke holds a PhD in Marine Biology and an MA in History of Ideas. Her research interests lie within the envi- ronmental humanities, with a focus on biodiversity, biodiversity loss, and invasive species. Anne Eriksen is Professor of Cultural History at the Department of Cul- ture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, Norway. Her research interests include collective memory and folklore, cultural herit- age, the history of knowledge, and eighteenth-century historiography and medical history. Diane E. Goldstein is Professor of Folklore Studies at the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, USA. Her research interests are vernacular narrative, belief studies, and ethnography of speak- ing as well as the folklore of violence, trauma, and illness. Isak Winkel Holm is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Depart- ment of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. His in- terests are literary theory, philosophical aesthetics, political theory, and disaster research. He is currently working on a monograph on Søren Kier- kegaard and the ongoing ecological catastrophe. Camilla Asplund Ingemark is a research fellow (Researcher II) at the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies, and Religion at the University of Bergen, Norway, for 2017–2020. She is also Senior Lec- turer in Ethnology at Uppsala University, Campus Gotland, Sweden, and Docent in Folkloristics at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Her research interests include climate change temporalities, vernacular conceptions of history, the cultural history of disasters, folk narrative from antiquity to the present, and the history of emotions. Lars Kaijser is Professor of Ethnology at the Department for Ethnology, His- tory of Religion, and Gender Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. viii Contributors His research interests are popular music heritage, guided tours, and the intersection of nature/culture. Kyrre Kverndokk is Professor of Cultural Studies at the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies, and Religion at the University of Bergen, Norway. His research interests are the history of folklore studies, the cultural history of natural disasters, climate change temporalities, and the practice and politics of Second World War memory. Lone Ree Milkær is a PhD student at the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies, and Religion at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her research interests are climate change discourse, everyday climate activism, traditionalisation, and environmental humanities. John Ødemark is Professor of Cultural History and Cultural Encounters at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the Univer- sity of Oslo, Norway. His research interests are the history of the human- ities and cultural translation. Illustrations 3.1 Facsimile from Sustainable Lives Magazine 42 4.1 Figure showing the temporalities present in NEG response 0263/00010. Woman b. 1970 57 4.2 Figure showing the temporalities present in SLS response 2303. Man, uncertain age 61
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