Climate Change Temporalities

<p><em>Climate Change Temporalities</em> explores how various timescales timespans intervals rhythms cycles and changes in acceleration are at play in climate change discourses. It argues that nuanced detailed and specific understandings and concepts are required to handle the challenges of a climatically changed world politically and socially as well as scientifically. Rather than reflecting abstractly on theories of temporality this edited collection explores a variety of timescales and temporalities from narratives experience popular culture and everyday life in addition to science and history - and the entanglements between them. The chapters are clustered into three main sections exploring a range of genres such as questionnaires interviews magazines news media television series aquariums and popular science books to critically examine how and where climate change understandings are formed. The book also includes chapters historising notions of climate and temporality by exploring scientific debates and practices.</p><p><em>Climate Change Temporalities</em> will be of great interest to students and scholars of humanistic climate change research environmental humanities studies of temporality and historicity cultural studies cultural history and popular culture.</p>