Shifting surface
satellite imagery of the Arctic Sea ice and climate change discourse
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-7714.no.2020.171993Keywords:
Climate change communication, Environmental visuality, Arctic Sea ice, Visual discourse analysisAbstract
This research explores how satellite images of Arctic sea ice contribute to climate change discourse. Different discourses require distinct responses. Policy measures are contingent upon representation, be it i.e. a threat or opportunity. The representations discussed are by the NSIDC and NASA, which hold a visual hegemony. First, the introduction discusses visual studies in policy research and identifies a simplified dichotomy of a threat discourse and environmental citizenship. Moreover, the methodology of visual discourse analysis based on poststructuralism is described. The delineated images portray a vertical, planar view allowing for spatial reference. Arctic sea ice is a visible climate change effect and the absence of boundaries, intervisuality with the Earthrise icon and focus on environmental effects support a discourse of citizenship.
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LEOPOLD, A. A Sand County Almanac. Second Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968
LESTER, L.; COTTLE, S. (2009) Visualizing Climate Change: Television News and Ecological Citizenship. International Journal of Communication, vol. 3, pp. 920-936, 2009. Disponível em: https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/509
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MANZO, K. (2010b) Beyond Polar Bears? Re-Envisioning Climate Change. Meteorological Applications vol. 17, pp. 196-208, 17/jun/2010(b). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/met.193
MAHONY, M.; HULME, M. Risk Colours. In: BIRGIT, S.; NOCKE, T. (org). Image Politics of Climate Change: Visualizations, Imaginations, Documentations. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2014, pp. 105-126.
OECD. Space Technologies and Climate Change: Implications for Water Management, Marine Resources and Maritime Transport. Paris: OECD Publications, 2008.
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O'NEILL, S.; NICHOLSON. S. ‘Fear Won't Do it': Promoting Positive Engagement With Climate Change Through Visual and Iconic Representations. Science Communication: vol. 30, n. 3, pp. 355-379, 2009, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1075547008329201
PAINTER, J. Climate Change in Media: Reporting Risk and Uncertainty. Londres: Tauris, 2013.
PERKINS, C.; DODGE, M. Satellite Imagery and the Spectacle of Secret Places. Geoforum, vol. 40, n. 4, pp. 546-560. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2009.04.012
ROSE, G. Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials. 3ª Ed. Londres: Sage Publications, 2012.
ROTHE, D. Seeing Like a Satellite: Of Plants, Carbon and other Securitizing Actors., PAN-EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: WORLDS OF VIOLENCE, Giardini Naxos, Sicily, 23-26/set/2015. Proceedings. European International Studies Association.
SCHINDLER, T. T. Visualization Shows Rapid Decline of Arctic Sea Ice. NASA: Global Climate Change News. 14/jan/2015. Disponível em: https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2220/visualization-shows-rapid-decline-of-arctic-sea-ice/.
SCHNEIDER, B.; NOCKE, T. (org) Image Politics of Climate Change: Visualizations, Imaginations, Documentations. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2014.
SCOTT, M. (2012) Tracking Sea Ice at the Top of the Globe. NASA Earth Observatory (Blog). Publicado em 17/set/2012. Disponível em: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2012/09/17/tracking-sea
-ice-at-the-top-of-the-globe/
SHAPIRO, M. Studies in Trans-Disciplinary Method: After the Aesthetic Turn. London, Nova York: Routledge, 2013.
SHEPPARD, S. Visualizing Climate Change: A Guide to Visual Communication of Climate Change and Developing Local Solutions. Nova York: Routledge, 2012.
SHIM, D. (2014). Remote Sensing Place: Satellite Images as Visual Spatial Imaginaries. Geoforum,vol. 51, pp. 152-160, jan/2014. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.11.002
SWYNGEDOUW, E. (2010) Apocalypse Forever? Post-political Populism and the Spectre of Climate Change. Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 27, n. 2-3, pp. 213-232, 24/mai/2010. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276409358728
SZERSZYNSKI, B.; TOOGOOD, M. Global Citizenship, the Environment and the Media. In: ALLAN, S.; ADAM, B.; CARTER, C. (org). Environmental Risks and the Media. London: Routledge, 2000.
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TOLLMANN, V. (2014) The Uncanny Polar Bear: Activists Visually Attack an Overly Emotionalized Image Clone. In: SCHNEIDER, B.; NOCKE, T. (org) Image Politics of Climate Change: Visualizations, Imaginations, Documentations. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2014, pp. 249-273.
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Shifting surface: satellite imagery of the Arctic Sea ice and climate change discourse. (2020). Novos Olhares, 9(1), 98-113. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-7714.no.2020.171993
