{"product_id":"liberalism-and-the-challenge-of-climate-change-9781138615069","title":"Liberalism and the Challenge of Climate Change","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book Christopher Shaw analyses how liberalism has shaped our understanding of climate change and how liberalism is legitimated in the face of a crisis for which liberalism has no answers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe language and symbolism we use to make sense of climate change arose in the post-World War II liberal institutions of the West. This language and symbolism, in neutralising the philosophical and ideological challenge climate change poses to the legitimacy of free market liberalism, has also closed off the possibility of imagining a different kind of future for humanity. The book is structured around a repurposing of the guardrail' concept, commonly used in climate science narratives to communicate the boundary between safe and dangerous climate change. Five discursive guardrails' are identified, which define a boundary between safe and dangerous ideas about how to respond to climate change. The theoretical treatment of these issues is complemented with data from interviews with opi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eLiberalism and the Challenge of Climate Change, \u003c\/i\u003eChris Shaw effectively, provocatively but accessibly, demolishes the cosy consensus that political and economic liberalism is capable of responding to the existential threat of climate change. With their emphasis on individualism, protecting the freedoms of capital, the primary of western scientific thought and faith in technological fixes, dominant liberal ideologies are having to confront their own crises and contradictions. This book expertly surveys and critiques these belief systems and imaginaries before exploring some of their contenders. It will be of interest to a range of students, scholars and practitioners working on climate change.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Newell\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eUniversity of Sussex and Research Director of the Rapid Transition Alliance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Chris Shaw's essential and urgent book addresses the failure and fundamental inadequacy of current attempts to address the climate crisis. With disquieting clarity, he demonstrates how even well-intentioned participants in projects for preserving a livable planet are trapped within conceptual frameworks or paradigms that a priori prevent the emergence of meaningful strategies for averting catastrophe.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJonathan Crary\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMeyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory, Columbia University, New York\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Words fail us when confronted with the challenges posed by climate change. Deeds fail us as well. As Chris Shaw demonstrates in this book, we are trapped in an ideological network spun by liberalism. This makes us blind to alternative and more radical ways of approaching climate change from a less individualistic and more communitarian perspective. This book should be read by anybody interested in understanding the climate change impasse in which the world finds itself. Understanding it is a precondition to moving beyond it.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrigitte Nerlich\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEmeritus Professor of Science, Language and Society, University of Nottingham\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Chris Shaw is steeped in the sociology and politics of climate change. In this book he argues elegantly and powerfully across a range of areas that climate change is intertwined with liberalism and that this blocks any solution to the climate crisis.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLuke Martell\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAuthor of Alternative Societies: For a Pluralist Socialism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive liberal climate guardrails\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe liberal language of climate change\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDefinitions of liberalism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeographical focus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy liberalism’s time is up on climate change\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe structure of this book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. The struggles of climate liberalism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.1 Sublimating paradox\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.2 The best of all possible worlds, the worst of all possible worlds\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.3 Freedom from, or freedom to?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.4 Anarchy and order\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.5 Openness to new ideas vs the reproduction of liberalism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.6 The five liberal climate guardrails \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.7 Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Climate change is not a challenge to individualism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2.1 A visit to the circus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2.2 Creating the climate individual\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2.3 The search for individual free will\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2.4 Hegemonic climate communication\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2.5 Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3. The liberal construction of climate change is universally relevant. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3.1 \u003cb\u003eGuardrail 2: The liberal construction of climate change is universally relevant. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3.2 Institutional norms and the liberal imperialism of climate change\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3.3 The communication of liberal institutional norms in climate discourses\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3.4 Climate targets and the communication of liberal norms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3.5 The denial of uncertainty and the denial of climate justice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3.6 Local experiences of a global phenomenon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3.7 Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Climate change is not an historical phenomenon. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4.1 Removing history from the climate debate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4.2 De-historicising the transformation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4.3 Removing the working class from the transformation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4.4 Intellectuals and the de-historicising of climate change\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4.5 Living with the past\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4.6 Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5. Guardrail 4: Climate change will be solved through technological innovation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.1 Substituting technology for progress\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.2 Science against democracy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.3 Selling technological responses to climate change\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.4 Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Climate Guardrail 5: Sustainable lifestyles will emerge from the appropriate cultural cues and leadership. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6.1: Stories, myths and other fairy tales\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6.2 Can new stories create new worlds?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6.3 Culture as control\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6.4 Creating orderly transitions through stories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6.5 Eden 2.0: Climate Change and the Search for a 21st Century Myth. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6.6 What We Think About When We Try Not to Think about Global Warming: Toward a New Psychology of Climate Action. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6.7 Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Maybe tomorrow\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.1 Interview methodology \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.2 Results from the interview analysis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.2.1 Freely choosing a future of fewer freedoms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.2.2 The individual’s role in creating the conditions for a system of fossil fuel free exploitation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.2.3. Searching for mushrooms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.2.4 Keep your head down whilst waiting for the change to come\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.2.5. Substituting politics with science and technology \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.2.6 Talking climate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.2.7 So much to do, such little time\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.2.8 Waiting for politicians\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.2.9 What’s the problem? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.2.10 It’s not just the climate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.3 Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Conclusion: What future?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8.1 Is there a there there?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8.2 The limits of the individual in a world of limits\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8.3 You shall have no other gods but science\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8.4 We can’t do this on our own\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8.5 A peasant prospect\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019508941143,"sku":"9781138615069","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138615069.jpg?v=1750780479","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/liberalism-and-the-challenge-of-climate-change-9781138615069","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}