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Climate Change and Its Lexicon: An Analytical and Critical View
Climate change is an overwhelming issue today, but sociology has yet to fully engage with its hermeneutical and political aspects. The article tackles this limitation and thus the lexicon of climate change, proposing an integrated framework that brings its principal concepts and notions together. In...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8547572/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34720399 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10767-021-09414-7 |
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description | Climate change is an overwhelming issue today, but sociology has yet to fully engage with its hermeneutical and political aspects. The article tackles this limitation and thus the lexicon of climate change, proposing an integrated framework that brings its principal concepts and notions together. In particular, it singles out hazard, risk and threat, vulnerability and resilience, adaptation, mitigation and precaution, Anthropocene and Capitalocene, nature and society. Although some authors have stressed the political aspects underlying these concepts and notions, and the IPCC itself has incipiently recognised this issue, the parameters of the debate remain conspicuously narrow. The article therefore proposes to engage it in direct and strong political terms, countering the partly successful operation of depoliticisation that such concepts and notions undergo. While the article concentrates on discursive aspects, it eventually points to the role of agents and power within the UN system concerning the articulation of this lexicon. |
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spelling | pubmed-85475722021-10-27 Climate Change and Its Lexicon: An Analytical and Critical View Domingues, José Maurício Int J Polit Cult Soc Article Climate change is an overwhelming issue today, but sociology has yet to fully engage with its hermeneutical and political aspects. The article tackles this limitation and thus the lexicon of climate change, proposing an integrated framework that brings its principal concepts and notions together. In particular, it singles out hazard, risk and threat, vulnerability and resilience, adaptation, mitigation and precaution, Anthropocene and Capitalocene, nature and society. Although some authors have stressed the political aspects underlying these concepts and notions, and the IPCC itself has incipiently recognised this issue, the parameters of the debate remain conspicuously narrow. The article therefore proposes to engage it in direct and strong political terms, countering the partly successful operation of depoliticisation that such concepts and notions undergo. While the article concentrates on discursive aspects, it eventually points to the role of agents and power within the UN system concerning the articulation of this lexicon. Springer US 2021-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8547572/ /pubmed/34720399 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10767-021-09414-7 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Article Domingues, José Maurício Climate Change and Its Lexicon: An Analytical and Critical View |
title | Climate Change and Its Lexicon: An Analytical and Critical View |
title_full | Climate Change and Its Lexicon: An Analytical and Critical View |
title_fullStr | Climate Change and Its Lexicon: An Analytical and Critical View |
title_full_unstemmed | Climate Change and Its Lexicon: An Analytical and Critical View |
title_short | Climate Change and Its Lexicon: An Analytical and Critical View |
title_sort | climate change and its lexicon: an analytical and critical view |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8547572/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34720399 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10767-021-09414-7 |
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