상세정보
Export to Refworks부가기능
Fixing Carbon: Mediating Matter in a Warming World
상세 프로파일
| 자료유형 | 학위논문 |
|---|---|
| 서명/저자사항 | Fixing Carbon: Mediating Matter in a Warming World. |
| 개인저자 | Pasek, Anne . |
| 단체저자명 | New York University. Media, Culture, and Communication. |
| 발행사항 | [S.l.]: New York University., 2019. |
| 발행사항 | Ann Arbor: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019. |
| 형태사항 | 294 p. |
| 기본자료 저록 | Dissertations Abstracts International 81-03B. Dissertation Abstract International |
| ISBN | 9781088385753 |
| 학위논문주기 | Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2019. |
| 일반주기 |
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-03, Section: B.
Advisor: Starosielski, Nicole. |
| 이용제한사항 | This item must not be sold to any third party vendors. |
| 요약 | This dissertation asks how carbon is schematized within the work of climate change communication. It argues that carbon's material properties as an element are the source of continuing challenges to this end. Elements are not like conventional objects of political analysis. Carbon exists in a large geophysical cycle, as a component of a remarkable array of substances, and so can best be defined by its bonds rather than properties intrinsic to itself. Accordingly, climate communication consists of the work of constructing legible boundaries across the carbon cycle, demarcating which relations are relevant to climate change. However, these schemas are not definitive nor apolitical. Because carbon is everywhere, in practically everything, it has a vast interpretive potential. This dissertation argues that climate politics can be productively reframed through the ways in which carbon is strategically 'fixed' into different relational schema with diverse aesthetic, affective, and economic affordances.This dissertation develops a typology of carbon fixes: point, elliptical, transversal, and mesh structures of relation. It begins with climate denialism and the epistemological primacy given to the (privileged) body-an elliptical fix in which carbon emissions are framed as life-sustaining within insular boundaries. The second chapter turns to the quantitative, contrasting ecological vs. carbon footprints. The former evaluate carbon through a mesh fix involving finite categories of land use. The latter parse carbon only in terms of weight: a point fix without limits. The consequences are explored in the third chapter, which examines Microsoft's carbon neutral program. Fixed to the transversal relations carbon commodities construct across space, carbon accounting frequently limits the prospects of carbon accountability, often only symbolically connecting disparate actions. These fixes are mobilized in the conclusion to outline best- and worst-case scenarios for (re)mediation in the emerging imaginaries of carbon sequestration.The dissertation argues that carbon is polysemous. It argues for the need to enmesh carbon-to fix it into multiple, reciprocal relations-in order to better recognize the social and material challenges of a warming world. Carbon's elemental character helps explain past challenges in climate communication and suggests future directions through which carbon's capacious relationality might serve as an asset to climate politics rather than a barrier. |
| 일반주제명 | Communication. Climate change. Multimedia communications. |
| 언어 | 영어 |
| 바로가기 | 
: 이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다. |
