Culture, Politics and Climate Change
ENVS 4800
Week 3
(September 6 & 8)
COMPONENT I: OVERVIEW – institutions, actors, (collective) psychology
Tuesday, September 6
Hulme, M. (2009) Why we disagree about climate change: understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, Chapter 5, ‘The things we believe’, 142-177.
Okereke, C. (2009) The politics of interstate climate negotiations, in The Politics of Climate Change (M. Boykoff, ed.) Routledge/Europa: London, UK, 42-61.
Swim, J., Clayton, S., Doherty, T., Gifford, R., Howard, G., Reser, J., Stern, P., and Weber, E. (2009). Psychology and global climate change: addressing a multi-faceted phenomenon and set of challenges, Report by American Psychological Association Task Force.
Moser, S. (2007) More bad news: the risk of neglecting emotional responses to climate change information, in Moser, S. and Dilling, L. (eds) Creating a Climate for Change, 64-80.
Thursday, September 8
- team project theme selections
- co-facilitation #2
Hulme, M. (2009) Why we disagree about climate change: understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, Chapter 6 ‘The things we fear’, 178-210.
Norgaard, K.M. (2006) People want to protect themselves a little bit: emotions, denial, and social movement nonparticipation, Sociological Inquiry, 76(3), 372-396.
Hamilton, L. (2011) Education, politics and opinions about climate change: evidence for interaction effects, Climatic Change 104, 231-242.
Shepardson, D., Niyogi, D., Choi, S. and U. Charusombat (2011) Students' conceptions about the greenhouse effect, global warming, and climate change, Climatic Change 104, 481-507.
