Climate Change, Moral Panics and Civilization

Name: Climate Change, Moral Panics and Civilization
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Climate Change, Moral Panics and CivilizationAuthor(s): Amanda Rohloff, Andr Saramago\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367507701, 978-0367507701\nSynopsis\nIn recent years, interest in climate change has rapidly increased in the social sciences and yet there is still relatively little published material in the field that seeks to understand the development of climate change as a perceived social problem. This book contributes to filling this gap by theoretically linking the study of the historical development of social perceptions about nature and climate change with the figurational sociology of Norbert Elias and the study of moral panics. \n\nBy focusing sociological theory on climate change, this book situates the issue within the broader context of the development of ecological civilizing processes and comes to conceive of contemporary campaigns surrounding climate change as instances of moral panics/civiliz.