Impulse text by Dr. Nicole Seymour, California State University, Fullerton, USA Climate change communication has for too long deployed modes such as “doom and gloom” and sentimentality—to many negative effects, including paralyzing audiences with fear (Norgaard 2011, Kelsey 2014) and reasserting normative values such as heterosexual reproductive futurism (Johns-Putra 2017).
November 2020 Environmental humanities scholar and associate Professor of English Nicole Seymour (California State University, Fullerton) in conversation with Prof. Birgit Schneider about the importance of affects, the potentials of irony, and “tactical frivolity” for communication in times of climate crisis. Use the chapter function in the player…
Impulse text by Univ. Prof. Dr. Dr. Sabine Gabrysch, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany „I am sorry but we need to amputate your toe!” – This was the statement that changed everything for Erik, a 68-year-old overweight diabetic man who had come…
November 2020 Univ. Prof. Dr. Sabine Gabrysch & Prof. Birgit Schneider on Re-Imagine Climate Change Communication Physician and head of research department on climate resilience of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) as well as professor for climate change and health at Charité Berlin Univ. Prof. Dr. Sabine…
Impulse text by Prof. Dr. Lynda C. Olman, University of Nevada, Reno, USA My research deals mainly with the public reception of climate visualizations, particularly scientific ones. As a rhetorician, however, what I’m primarily interested in is not how “clearly” a climate visualization gets across its message, or how “effective”…
November 2020 Rhetorician and professor of English Lynda C. Olman (University of Nevada, Reno) in conversation with Prof. Birgit Schneider about the importance of rhetorics for climate visualization, the shift and scale of climate graphics, the possibilities for creating collectives and the idea of hybrid visualizations in climate change communication.
Impulse text by Prof. Axel Gelfert, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany In my work, I focus on the conditions that need to be in place for the successful generation and dissemination of scientific knowledge. This, I have found, is often best explored by way of contrast, viz. by looking at the…
November 2020 Philosopher of science and technology Prof. Dr. Axel Gelfert (Technical University of Berlin) in conversation with Prof. Birgit Schneider about the philosophical complexity of climate science, the information deficit model, the ambiguity of filter bubbles, and the importance of scenarios and fiction for climate change communication. Use the…
Impulse text by Prof. Rita Brara, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi I have viewed the Anthropocene as a Foucaultian dispositif or a ‘network of networks’ as it were, delineated how notions of vulnerability and resilience have been interpreted in the course of adjudicating environmental lawsuits in India, written on cartoons…
November 2020 Dr. Rita Brara senior fellow of the Institute of Economic Growth in Delhi in conversation with Prof. Birgit Schneider about climate justice, the meaning of gender and water supply in India, and the role of cartoons in context of climate change communication. Use the…