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Imaging vulnerability: the iconography of climate change

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Kathryn Manzo

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Abstract

This paper explores the iconography of climate change in contemporary climate action campaigns in the UK. I aim to show how sample images are simultaneously scientific denotations of global warming and cultural connotations of danger and vulnerability. I further demonstrate that while similar images are associated with different agendas and geographical visions, they attach to a shared discourse of vulnerability that has Western (colonial) roots. The paper concludes with an overview of possible ways for climate action campaigns to effectively convey their political messages without recycling colonial visions of the world. © 2009 The Author. Journal compilation © Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers) 2009.

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Author(s): Manzo K

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Area

Year: 2010

Volume: 42

Issue: 1

Pages: 96-107

ISSN (print): 0004-0894

ISSN (electronic): 1475-4762

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.2009.00887.x

DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2009.00887.x

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