Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Zeke Baker, Tamar Law, Mark Vardy, and Stephen Zehr
PART I: Climate Change Science as a Social Issue: Introduction
Zeke Baker
1: Future Times and Spaces: Tracing Objectivity, Scale, and Politics in the Social Life of Climate Science
Zeke Baker
2: Meteorology, Climate Science, and Empire: Histories and Legacies
Martin Mahony
3: Rethinking Our Histories and Relations with Climate Change
Candis Callison
PART II: Theorizing Climate, Science, and Society: Introduction
Stephen Zehr
4: We Cannot Afford Not to Perform Constructionist Studies of Mainstream Climate Science
Myanna Lahsen
5: Political Economies of Climate Science: Beyond Technological Villains and Scientific Saviors
Zeke Baker
PART III: Media and Public Communication about Climate Change: Introduction
Stephen Zehr
6: Climate Change Communication: Simple, Right?
Stephen Zehr
7: Public Communication and Perceptions of Climate Change in Brazil
Eloisa Beling Loose and Anabela Carvalho
8: News and Social Media Imagery of Climate Change: Analyzing the Role and Impact of Visuals in Public Communication
Mike S. Schäfer and Xiaoyue Yan
PART IV: NGOs, Civil Society, and Social Movements: Introduction
Mark Vardy
9: Non-Governmental Organizations and the Environmental Movement: Challenges in Climate Change Framing
Steven Yearley
10: Expert Activists and NGOs: Understanding and Acting on Global Climate Change
Adam Fleischmann
11: Skirting the Frame: Prepping and the Conservative Politics of Climate Change
Allison Ford
PART V: Climate Justice: Introduction
Tamar Law
12: Postcards from Small Town India: Situated Climate Justice, Science, and Technology
Ankit Bhardwaj
13: Solar Affordances and the Struggle for Climate Justice in Southwest Asia
Kendra Kintzi
14: Upstream Engagement in the Era of Climate Change
Roopali Phadke
15: Climate Justice: Taking Back the Commons
Shangrila Joshi
PART VI: Climate Governance: Introduction
Mark Vardy
16: Climate Change as Ontological Unsettling: A View from the City
Hannah Knox
17: The IPCC as a Body of Expertise
Reiner Grundmann
18: Consensus, National Self-Interest, and the Shaping of Climate Knowledge in IPCC Assessment Processes
Mark Vardy
19: Trust at the Climate Science-Policy Interface
Tiago Ribeiro Duarte
PART VII: Energy, Sustainability, and Sociotechnical Transitions: Introduction
Stephen Zehr
20: Energy Transitions in a World of Polarized Politics
David J. Hess
21: Configuring Markets and Transactions for Energy System Transition: A Role for STS Research
Daniel Breslau
22: The Role of Users in the Energy Transition
Marianne Ryghaug, Tomas Moe Skjølsvold, and Robert Næss
23: STS and the Design of Futures
Clark A. Miller
PART VIII: Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience: Introduction
Tamar Law
24: Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience: Sociotechnical and Knowledge Dimensions
Tim Forsyth
25: Rethinking Climate Change Adaptation
Marcus Taylor
26: Farming in Climate Crisis: Agricultural Adaptation(s) in Central New York State
Tamar Law
27: Climate Adaptation, Methodology, and the Case Study
Sarah E. Vaughn
PART IX: Art, Infrastructure, and Climate: Introduction
Mark Vardy
28: Amphibious Cities
Dominic Boyer
29: Aesthetic Encounters with the More-Than-Human
Désirée Förster
30: Averted Vision
Karolina Sobecka
PART X: Climate Engineering: Introduction
Zeke Baker
31: The Politics of Climate Engineering Research
Julia Schubert
32: The Intervention of Climate Science
Stefan Schäfer
33: Making the 1.5oC Aspirational Climate Target Tangible with Carbon Dioxide Removal and Boundary Work
Anders Hansson
34: Boundary Work in Solar Geoengineering Assessment and Experiments
Sean Low
PART XI: Climate Futures: Introduction
Zeke Baker
35: Futuring in Climate Politics: Activism and the Politics of the Imagination
Jeroen Oomen
36: The World Ocean and Climate Connectivities
Cymene Howe
37: From Controlling Global Mean Temperature to Caring for a Flourishing Climate
Andy Stirling
Index
