Mon, March 9, 2015 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. Join us for an exciting panel to discuss the new book, How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts, by Candis Callison, UBC’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Climate change offers an opportunity to investigate how science-based issues and predictions come to matter for wide publics. What role media and social movements might play in this process has largely rested on long held assumptions that privilege access to information and science literacy. While fidelity to scientific facts remains essential, the work of diverse social groups from indigenous leaders in the Arctic to corporate social responsibility activists in Boston demonstrate that climate change is experienced, understood, translated, and discussed differently in varied contexts. How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts (Duke U Press, 2014) draws on ethnographic evidence in order to suggest that social affiliations and concerns are vital to investing climate change with particular meanings, ethics, and morality in order to mobilize action and public engagement.
Moderator: Kathryn Gretsinger (UBC Journalism)
Respondents: Prof. Milind Kandlikar (UBC IRES), Prof. David Tindall (UBC Sociology), Prof. David Archer (Visiting Peter Wall International Scholar, UChicago)
Sponsored by: UBC Graduate School of Journalism, Liu Institute for Global Issues