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Image Politics of Climate Change
Culture—Theory—Disability
Visualizations, Imaginations, Documentations
Encounters Between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies
Birgit Schneider and
Anne Waldschmidt,
Thomas Nocke, editors
Hanjo Berressem, and Moritz Ingwersen, editors
F o r S a l e O n ly i n t h e u n i t e d s tat e s , C a n a d a , M e x i c o , Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia
Scientific research on climate change has given rise to a variety of images that make the invisible visible, influencing both politics and the general perception of global weather events. In sixteen interdisciplinary case studies, this book maps the visual aspects of climate discourse, presenting images that depict the climate and climate change in very different ways. Through landscape photography, artworks, press photos, maps and diagrams used in climate science and climate-skeptical media, and the visual strategies of environmental activism, this book provides insight into the crucial roles images play in shaping climate change communication. Birgit Schneider
is a postdoc fellow at the Institute for
Arts and Media at the University of Potsdam. Thomas Nocke
investigates visualization methods for cli-
mate data and visual climate knowledge communication at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany.
What does disability studies gain by opening itself up to cultural studies, and which theoretical frameworks of contemporary cultural criticism can disability studies deploy to rethink the discipline? What can cultural studies gain by embracing disability more fully as an object of inquiry and as a framework for analysis? This collection of essays enriches the thriving new discourse of cultural disability studies. To contour the various “contact zones” between the two fields, the volume works transdisciplinarily, incorporating such fields as sociology, literary studies, art history, and philosophy. Anne Waldschmidt
teaches sociology, politics of reha-
bilitation, and disability studies at the University of Cologne. Hanjo Berressem
teaches American literature and
culture at the University of Cologne. Moritz Ingwersen
is a Ph.D. candidate at Trent
University and teaches American literature at the University of Cologne.
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-2610-0
$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-2533-2
Ava i l a b l e N o w 400 pages / 65 b&w and 8 color illustrations
S e p t e m b e r 280 pages
V isual S tudies / envir o nmentalism
disability S tudies / C ultural studies
I mage
D isability S tudies : B o dy— P ower — D ifference
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