"Global news on anthropogenic climate change is shaped by international politics, scientific reports and voices from transnational protest movements. This timely volume asks how local communities engage with these transnational discourses. The chapters in this volume present a range of compelling case studies drawn from a broad cross-section of local communities around the world, reflecting diverse cultural and geographical contexts. From Greenland to northern Tanzania, it illuminates how different understandings evolve in diverse cultural and geographical contexts while also revealing some common patterns of how people make sense of climate change. Global Warming in Local Discourses constitutes a significant, new contribution to understanding the multi-perspectivity of our debates on climate change, further highlighting the need for interdisciplinary study within this area." (Publisher description)
We are Climate Change: Climate Debates Between Transnational and Local Discourses / Michael Brüggemann and Simone Rödder, 1
The Case of “Costa del Nuuk”: Greenlanders Make Sense of Global Climate Change / Freja C. Eriksen, 31
Communication and Knowledge Transfer on Climate Change in the Philippines / Thomas Friedrich, 77
Sense-Making of COP 21 among Rural and City Residents: The Role of Space in Media Reception / Imke Hoppe, Fenja De Silva-Schmidt, Michael Brüggemann, and Dorothee Arlt, 121
What Does Climate Change Mean to Us, the Maasai? How Climate-Change Discourse is Translated in Maasailand, Northern Tanzania / Sara de Wit, 161
Living on the Frontier: Laypeople’s Perceptions and Communication of Climate Change in the Coastal Region of Bangladesh / Shameem Mahmud, 209
Extreme Weather Events and Local Impacts of Climate Change: The Scientific Perspective / Friederike E. L. Otto, 245