List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Zeke Baker, Tamar Law, Mark Vardy, and Stephen Zehr

PART I: Climate Change Science as a Social Issue: Introduction

Zeke Baker

1: Future Times and Spaces: Tracing Objectivity, Scale, and Politics in the Social Life of Climate Science

Zeke Baker

2: Meteorology, Climate Science, and Empire: Histories and Legacies

Martin Mahony

3: Rethinking Our Histories and Relations with Climate Change

Candis Callison

PART II: Theorizing Climate, Science, and Society: Introduction

Stephen Zehr

4: We Cannot Afford Not to Perform Constructionist Studies of Mainstream Climate Science

Myanna Lahsen

5: Political Economies of Climate Science: Beyond Technological Villains and Scientific Saviors

Zeke Baker

PART III: Media and Public Communication about Climate Change: Introduction

Stephen Zehr

6: Climate Change Communication: Simple, Right?

Stephen Zehr

7: Public Communication and Perceptions of Climate Change in Brazil

Eloisa Beling Loose and Anabela Carvalho

8: News and Social Media Imagery of Climate Change: Analyzing the Role and Impact of Visuals in Public Communication

Mike S. Schäfer and Xiaoyue Yan

PART IV: NGOs, Civil Society, and Social Movements: Introduction

Mark Vardy

9: Non-Governmental Organizations and the Environmental Movement: Challenges in Climate Change Framing

Steven Yearley

10: Expert Activists and NGOs: Understanding and Acting on Global Climate Change

Adam Fleischmann

11: Skirting the Frame: Prepping and the Conservative Politics of Climate Change

Allison Ford

PART V: Climate Justice: Introduction

Tamar Law

12: Postcards from Small Town India: Situated Climate Justice, Science, and Technology

Ankit Bhardwaj

13: Solar Affordances and the Struggle for Climate Justice in Southwest Asia

Kendra Kintzi

14: Upstream Engagement in the Era of Climate Change

Roopali Phadke

15: Climate Justice: Taking Back the Commons

Shangrila Joshi

PART VI: Climate Governance: Introduction

Mark Vardy

16: Climate Change as Ontological Unsettling: A View from the City

Hannah Knox

17: The IPCC as a Body of Expertise

Reiner Grundmann

18: Consensus, National Self-Interest, and the Shaping of Climate Knowledge in IPCC Assessment Processes

Mark Vardy

19: Trust at the Climate Science-Policy Interface

Tiago Ribeiro Duarte

PART VII: Energy, Sustainability, and Sociotechnical Transitions: Introduction

Stephen Zehr

20: Energy Transitions in a World of Polarized Politics

David J. Hess

21: Configuring Markets and Transactions for Energy System Transition: A Role for STS Research

Daniel Breslau

22: The Role of Users in the Energy Transition

Marianne Ryghaug, Tomas Moe Skjølsvold, and Robert Næss

23: STS and the Design of Futures

Clark A. Miller

PART VIII: Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience: Introduction

Tamar Law

24: Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience: Sociotechnical and Knowledge Dimensions

Tim Forsyth

25: Rethinking Climate Change Adaptation

Marcus Taylor

26: Farming in Climate Crisis: Agricultural Adaptation(s) in Central New York State

Tamar Law

27: Climate Adaptation, Methodology, and the Case Study

Sarah E. Vaughn

PART IX: Art, Infrastructure, and Climate: Introduction

Mark Vardy

28: Amphibious Cities

Dominic Boyer

29: Aesthetic Encounters with the More-Than-Human

Désirée Förster

30: Averted Vision

Karolina Sobecka

PART X: Climate Engineering: Introduction

Zeke Baker

31: The Politics of Climate Engineering Research

Julia Schubert

32: The Intervention of Climate Science

Stefan Schäfer

33: Making the 1.5oC Aspirational Climate Target Tangible with Carbon Dioxide Removal and Boundary Work

Anders Hansson

34: Boundary Work in Solar Geoengineering Assessment and Experiments

Sean Low

PART XI: Climate Futures: Introduction

Zeke Baker

35: Futuring in Climate Politics: Activism and the Politics of the Imagination

Jeroen Oomen

36: The World Ocean and Climate Connectivities

Cymene Howe

37: From Controlling Global Mean Temperature to Caring for a Flourishing Climate

Andy Stirling

Index