Image Politics of Climate Change

Visualizations, Imaginations, Documentations
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-8376-2610-0
Verlag: transcript

Buch, Englisch, Band 55, 388 Seiten, Kartoniert, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 600 g

Reihe: Image

Scientific research on climate change has given rise to a variety of images picturing climate change. These range from colorful expert graphics, model visualizations, photographs of extreme weather events like floods, droughts or melting ice, symbols like polar bears, to animated and interactive visualizations. Climate change graphics have not only increased knowledge about the subject, they have begun to influence popular awareness of global weather events. The status of climate pictures today is particularly crucial, as global climate change as a long-term process cannot be seen.

When images are widely distributed, they are able to shape how the world is thought about and seen. It is this implicit basic assumption of the power of images to influence reality that this book addresses: today's images might become the blueprint for tomorrow's realities.

'Image Politics of Climate Change' combines a wide interdisciplinary range of perspectives and questions, treated here in sixteen interdisciplinary case studies. The author's specializations include both visual practice and theory: in the fields of climate sciences, computer graphics, art, curating, art history and visual studies, communication and cultural science, environmental and science & technology studies. The close interlinking of these viewpoints promotes in-depth insights into issues of production and analysis of climate visualization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schneider, Birgit

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstpsychologie und -soziologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen: Natur & Tiere (Stillleben, Landschaften etc.)
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunst: Rezeption, Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltsoziologie, Umweltpsychologie, Umweltethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Besondere Themen und Arten der Fotografie

Über Autor(innen)

Schneider, Birgit
Birgit Schneider ist Kultur- und Medienwissenschaftlerin und lehrt als Professorin für Wissenskulturen und mediale Umgebungen an der Universität Potsdam. Ihre Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind Bilder und Wahrnehmungsweisen des Klimas zwischen Wissenschaft, Politik, Kunst und Medien, die Kommunikation des Klimawandels, Bilder der Ökologie sowie medien- und naturästhetische Fragen.

Birgit Schneider (PhD in cultural studies) is postdoc fellow at the Institute for Arts and Media at University of Potsdam, Germany.
Thomas Nocke (PhD in computer science) investigates visualization methods for climate data and visual climate knowledge communication at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany.