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Imaging vulnerability: the iconography of climate change.
- Source :
- Area; Mar2010, Vol. 42 Issue 1, p96-107, 12p, 3 Color Photographs, 1 Chart
- Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- This paper explores the iconography of climate change in contemporary climate action campaigns in the UK. I aim to show how sample images are simultaneously scientific denotations of global warming and cultural connotations of danger and vulnerability. I further demonstrate that while similar images are associated with different agendas and geographical visions, they attach to a shared discourse of vulnerability that has Western (colonial) roots. The paper concludes with an overview of possible ways for climate action campaigns to effectively convey their political messages without recycling colonial visions of the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CLIMATE change
GLOBAL warming
GREENHOUSE effect
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00040894
- Volume :
- 42
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Area
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 47679406
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.2009.00887.x