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Problem sceptycyzmu wobec zmiany klimatycznej a postkonstruktywizm
Postconstructivism and the Problem of Global Warming Denial Movement

Author(s): Ewa Bińczyk
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Postconstructivism; Science and Technology Studies; climate change; global warming denial; sociology of risk; Actor-Network Theory; anthropocene

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the thesis claiming that postconstructivist view is the best tool to describe and analyze such phenomena as modern risk, scientifi c controversies, climate change and global warming denial movement. I consider Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Bruno Latour’s Actor-Network Theory (ANT) the best examples of postconstructivist thinking. They allow to picture both science and technology as spheres of collective practice, materially situated and instrumentally rooted. They postulate a posthumanist, antiessentialist, ecological politics in which climate change and the role of non-humans may be represented in a satisfactory way.

  • Issue Year: 15/2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 48–66
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish