Cultural Politics of Climate Change
Max Boykoff has examined the role of celebrity interventions at the interface with climate science, governance and the everyday (with Michael K. Goodman, Kings College London, and Jo Littler, Middlesex University). This examines how the (de)legitimisation of a particular set of “privileged” non nation-state actors influence unfolding considerations and actions to grapple with anthropogenic climate change. One paper from this project is a book chapter called The cultural politics of climate change: Interaction in everyday spaces in the edited book The Politics of Climate Change: A Survey (edited by Boykoff), released November 2009. They have been working to theoretically and empirically explore some of the promises, pitfalls and contradictions of this increasingly entrenched set of amplified non-state “actor” voices.
