Climate Change Literacy

Roman Bartosch author Julia Hoydis author Jens Martin Gurr author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:22nd Jun '23

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Climate change literacy assesses the cognitive, affective, and pedagogic potentials of literature.

This Element presents a necessary intervention within the rapidly expanding field of research in the environmental humanities on climate change and environmental literacy. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.This Element presents a necessary intervention within the rapidly expanding field of research in the environmental humanities on climate change and environmental literacy. In contrast to the dominant, science-centred literacy debates, which largely ignore the unique resources of the humanities, it asks: How does literary reading contribute to climate change communication? How does this contribution relate to recent demands for environmental and related literacies? Rather than reducing the function of literature to a more pleasurable form of information transfer or its affective dimension of evoking sympathy, climate change literacy thoroughly reassesses the cognitive, affective, and pedagogic potentials of literary writing. It does so by analysing a selection of popular climate novels and by demonstrating the role of fiction in fostering a more adequate understanding of, and response to, climate change. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

ISBN: 9781009341998

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 4mm

Weight: 130g

75 pages