B Global Communications Global Communications Global Warming in Local Discourses rüggemann How Communities around the World Make Sense of Climate Change EditEd by MichaEl brüggEMann and SiMonE röddEr EditEd by MichaEl brüggEMann and SiMonE röddEr With an interdisciplinary scope and a weaving together of global and local climate change concerns, this book provides an excellent example for the type of collecton urgently needed right now. and Global Warming in Hunter Vaughan, Editor of Journal of Environmental Media r This book brilliantly shows how the idea of climate change performs many diferent ödder cultural and politcal functons as it travels around the world, meetng a sheer diversity of Local Discourses people and cultures along the way. Mike Hulme, University of Cambridge ( eds I recommend this book to everyone working to make sense of how we, as a global How Communities around the World community, can more efectvely learn from each other and utlize common ground to ) substantvely address climate change in the twenty-frst century. Make Sense of Climate Change Max Boykof, University of Colorado Boulder Global news on anthropogenic climate change is shaped by internatonal politcs, scientfc g reports and voices from transnatonal protest movements. This tmely volume asks how lobal local communites engage with these transnatonal discourses. Looking at communites from Greenland to Tanzania, it illuminates how diferent understandings evolve in diverse W cultural and geographical contexts while also revealing some common paterns of how people make sense of climate change. ar M This book is a valuable resource to those studying climate and science communicaton; ing those interested in understanding the various roles played by journalism, NGOs, politcs and science in shaping public understandings of climate change, as well as those exploring in the intersectons of the global and the local in debates on the sustainable transformaton l of societes. ocal As with all Open Book publicatons, this entre book is available to read for free on the publisher’s website. 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Global Communications vol. 1 | ISSN 2634-7245 (Print) | ISSN 2634-7253 (Online) ISBN Paperback: 9781783749591 ISBN Hardback: 9781783749607 ISBN Digital (PDF): 9781800641259 ISBN Digital ebook (epub): 9781783749386 ISBN Digital ebook (mobi): 9781783749393 ISBN XML: 9781783749409 DOI: 10.11647/OBP.0212 Cover design by Anna Gatti based on a photo by Duangphorn Wiriya on Unsplash at https://unsplash.com/photos/KiMpFTtuuAk Contents Acknowledgements vii Author Biographies ix We are Climate Change: Climate Debates Between Transnational 1 and Local Discourses Michael Brüggemann and Simone Rödder The Case of “Costa del Nuuk”: Greenlanders Make Sense of 31 Global Climate Change Freja C. Eriksen Communication and Knowledge Transfer on Climate Change in 77 the Philippines Thomas Friedrich Sense-Making of COP 21 among Rural and City Residents: The 121 Role of Space in Media Reception Imke Hoppe, Fenja De Silva-Schmidt, Michael Brüggemann, and Dorothee Arlt What Does Climate Change Mean to Us, the Maasai? How 161 Climate-Change Discourse is Translated in Maasailand, Northern Tanzania Sara de Wit Living on the Frontier: Laypeople’s Perceptions and 209 Communication of Climate Change in the Coastal Region of Bangladesh Shameem Mahmud vi Global Warming in Local Discourses Extreme Weather Events and Local Impacts of Climate Change: 245 The Scientifc Perspective Friederike E. L. Otto List of Illustrations 263 Index 265 Acknowledgements Editing this book would not have been possible without the continuous support from a number of people whom we thank very much. Obviously, the volume would be nothing without the chapter authors’ willingness to condense bigger research projects into book chapters and going through several rounds of revisions. We also acknowledge the great support of our student assistant, Joana Kollert, in putting this book together. Thank you to the anonymous reviewers of the individual chapters and overall book concept, and to our colleague in Hamburg, Michael Schnegg, who has provided valuable feedback on the introduction. Kelley Friel has provided support in copy-editing the chapters into better English. We are indebted to Sven Engesser who has taken up the responsibility for this book among the editors of the Global Communications Book Series. Also, we thank Alessandra Tosi from Open Book Publishers who has supported the book and the book series over the years, and who never lost patience with us as the project proceeded slower than expected. We would also like to thank the support team at Open Book Publishers: Adele Kreager, for copy-editing, Anna Gatti, for cover design, and Melissa Purkiss, for typesetting. Finally, we acknowledge funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy—EXC 2037 ‘CLICCS—Climate, Climatic Change, and Society’—Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), Universität Hamburg. Author Biographies Dorothee Arlt has been teaching and researching at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Bern as a Senior Assistant since 2013. Her research focuses on political communication, media in the context of flight and migration, science, energy and climate communication, as well as media reception and impact. Dorothee Arlt studied Applied Media Science at the Technical University of Ilmenau. Michael Brüggemann is Professor of Communication Research, Climate and Science Communication at Universität Hamburg and Principal Investigator in the Cluster of Excellence CLICCS (Climate, Climatic Change, and Society). His research explores the transformations of journalism, political and science communication from a comparative perspective. For recent publications, see www.bruegge.net. Commentary on climate communication may be found at www.climatematters.de. Fenja De Silva-Schmidt received her MA in Journalism and Communication Studies at Universität Hamburg, where she is also currently working as a Research Associate to the Chair of Communication Research, Climate and Science Communication. In her PhD dissertation, she analyzes how media coverage and interpersonal communication influence knowledge acquisition about climate politics. Sara de Wit joined the Institute of Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS), University of Oxford, as a postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2017. She is currently part of the Forecasts for Anticipatory Humanitarian Action (FATHUM) project. Trained in Anthropology and African Studies, Sara has a strong empirical orientation and has carried out “ethnographies of aid”—at the intersection of Science and Technology x Global Warming in Local Discourses Studies (STS), development theories, environmental anthropology and postcolonial studies—in which she broadly focused on how globally circulating ideas (such as climate change and notions of “modernity” and “development”) travel, and what happens when they are translated by varying actors along the translation chain. Freja C. Eriksen holds an MA in Journalism, Media and Globalization from Aarhus University and Universität Hamburg. Since concluding her thesis on sense-making of climate change in Greenland, she has become a climate and energy transition correspondent for Clean Energy Wire in Berlin. Before this,