Climate Change Scepticism: A Transnational Ecocritical Analysis [Paperback]

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.

Climate Change Scepticismis the first ecocritical study to examine the cultures and rhetoric of climate scepticism in the UK, Germany, the USA and France. Collaboratively written by leading scholars from Europe and North America, the book considers climate skeptical-textsasliterature, teasing out differences and challenging stereotypes as a way of overcoming partisan political paralysis on the most important cultural debate of our time.

Greg Garrardis Associate Professor of Sustainability at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of the bestselling bookEcocriticism(2nd edition, 2011) and editor ofThe Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism(2014).

Axel Goodbodyis Emeritus Professor of German and European Culture at the University of Bath, UK. His previous publications include, as co-editor,Ecocritical Theory: New European Approaches(2011).

George B. Handleyis Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities at Brigham Young University, USA. His previous publications includeNew World Poetics: Nature and the Academic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott(2007) and, as co-editor,Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment(2011).

Stephanie Posthumusis Associate Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University, Canada. She is the author ofFrench?cocritique:Reading Contemporary French Theory and Fiction Ecologically(2017).

Scientifically, climate is mostly understood. Today, it is the socio-political issue climate which public interest is focused on. The medium through which the issue is activated in public discourse and policymaking is language, laden with cultural constructions and beliefs. That is what this much needed book is about: