Living in Denial Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life

Name: Living in Denial Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life
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ISBN: 9780262515856

ISBN-10: 0262515857

ISBN-13: 9780262515856

Edition: 2011

Authors: Kari Marie Norgaard

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Global warming is the most significant environmental issue of our time, yet public response in Western nations has been meager. Why have so few taken any action? In Living in Denial, sociologist Kari Norgaard searches for answers to this question, drawing on interviews and ethnographic data from her study of "Bygdaby," the fictional name of an actual rural community in western Norway, during the unusually warm winter of 2001-2002. [In 2001-2002 the first snowfall came to Bygdaby two months later than usual; ice fishing was impossible; and the ski industry had to invest substantially in artificial snow-making.] Stories in local and national newspapers linked the warm winter explicitly to…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 3/11/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.880

Kari Marie Norgaard is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon.



Acknowledgments


Prologue: An Unusual Winter


Introduction: The Failure to Act, Denial versus Indifference, Apathy, and Ignorance



Boundaries and Moral Order: An Introduction to Life in Bygdaby



ï¿½Experiencingï¿½ Global Warming: Troubling Events and Public Silence



ï¿½People Want to Protect Themselves a Little Bitï¿½: The Why of Denial



The Cultural Tool Kit, Part One: Cultural Norms of Attention, Emotion, and Conversation



The Cultural Tool Kit, Part Two: Telling Stories of Mythic Nations



Climate Change as Background Noise in the United States


Conclusion



Methods



List of People in Bygdaby Interviewed and Quoted


Notes


References


Index