[Commlist] CFP - Climate Change and Journalism

Call for Abstracts/Chapters for an edited volume entitled, “Climate 
Change and Journalism: Negotiating Rifts of Time” (Routledge)

Temporal scales and perceptions of past, present and future diverge, 
clash and merge in complex ways when discussing and visualizing climate 
change. The “slow violence” (Nixon) of climate change, linked to a 
complicated and multi-sited history of extraction, has caused immediate 
and imminent devastation—or, what is now increasingly referred to as the 
“climate emergency” and “climate crisis”. This intersection of quick 
ruptures with gradual, extended experiences of change are difficult to 
reconcile, especially by journalists and media-makers. Following on from 
that, this collection aims to reflect on the complex negotiations of 
temporal scales related to climate change and its mediations. Such 
negotiations emerge, for instance, in the temporalities related to the 
mediation of GretaThunberg, which relate to geological time, its 
acceleration, tipping points, institutional temporalities of politics 
and journalism (and its possible acceleration), lifespans and 
generations as well as living memories of weather and related events. 
Such scales and perceptions are, furthermore, inscribed within more 
specific temporalities of media ideologies, ideologies and cultures in 
very different locales, which — at some level — all are written into the 
temporalities of global communication.

The broad aim of this volume is consequently to analyze the meetings of 
and schisms between various temporalities as they emerge within specific 
mediations of climate change in a diverse range of locations around the 
world. The collection thus seeks to understand how climate change as a 
temporal process gets inscribed within the temporalities of journalism, 
which inflect various local, regional, national and global times as well 
as various perceptions of change related to generations, (living) memory 
and (national) politics and how such perceptions are linked to the 
temporalities of globalization, colonialism, race, gender and class. The 
aim of this collection is to free the thinking about climate change 
communication from science communication and/or social science 
approaches focusing on how climate communication can be improved 
(Chadwick) and, linked to that, how effects can be measured. Rather than 
being immediately focused on more efficient communication as determined 
and measured by an empiricist tradition, such critical cultural studies 
may help tease out important nuances of discourse and power that 
eventually can point towards different communicative practices.

Schedule:

Date for submitting abstracts (max 300 words): January 15, 2020

Answers with regard to acceptance: February 1

Deadline for first draft of chapters: May 1

Deadline for editors’ comments to authors: June 15

Deadline for final edited versions of chapters (7000-8000 words): August 1

Publication: Autumn 2020

Send abstracts to editors HenrikBødker, Dept. of Media and Journalism 
Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark, (hb /at/ cc.au.dk) <mailto:(hb /at/ cc.au.dk)>; 
and Hanna E. Morris, Annenberg School for Communication, University of 
Pennsylvania, USA, (hanna.morris /at/ asc.upenn.edu) 
<mailto:(hanna.morris /at/ asc.upenn.edu)>

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