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• Title:How climate change comes to matter : the communal life of facts / Candis Callison.
  
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• Author/Creator:Callison, Candis, 1971-
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection.
  
• Published/Created:Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: PC C35 H68 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Inuit--Environmental concerns.
  
• Library of Congress Subjects: Climatic changes--Social aspects--United States.
  Climatic changes--Political aspects--United States.
  Climatic changes--Press coverage--United States.
  
• Description:xi, 316 pages ; 23 cm
  
• Series:Experimental futures.
  
• Summary:"During the past decade, skepticism about climate change has frustrated those seeking to engage broad publics and motivate them to take action on the issue. In this innovative ethnography, Candis Callison examines the initiatives of social and professional groups as they encourage diverse American publics to care about climate change. She explores the efforts of science journalists, scientists who have become expert voices for and about climate change, American evangelicals, Indigenous leaders, and advocates for corporate social responsibility. The disparate efforts of these groups illuminate the challenge of maintaining fidelity to scientific facts while transforming them into ethical and moral calls to action. Callison investigates the different vernaculars through which we understand and articulate our worlds, as well as the nuanced and pluralistic understandings of climate change evident in different forms of advocacy. As she demonstrates, climate change offers an opportunity to look deeply at how issues and problems that begin in a scientific context come to matter to wide publics, and to rethink emerging interactions among different kinds of knowledge and experience, evolving media landscapes, and claims to authority and expertise." -- Provided by the publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-302) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780822357711 (cloth ; alk. paper)
  0822357712 (cloth ; alk. paper)
  9780822357872 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
  0822357879 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
  
• Contents:The Inuit gift
  Reporting on climate change
  Blessing the facts
  Negotiating risk, expertise, and near-advocacy
  What gets measured, gets managed
  Epilogue: rethinking public engagement & collaboration.