Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change: Literature, Psychoanalysis and Denial

Title: Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change: Literature, Psychoanalysis and Denial Author: Lee Zimmerman ISBN: 9780367355579 Publisher: Routledge Published: 2020 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Psychology 1585896 Publisher Description: The more the global north has learned about the existential threat of climate change, the faster it has emitted greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. In Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change, Lee Zimmerman thinks about why this is by examining how "climate change" has been discursively constructed, tracing how the ways we talk and write about climate change have worked to normalize a generalized, bipartisan denialism more profound than that of the overt "denialists." Suggesting that we understand that normalized denial as a form of cultural trauma, the book explores how the dominant ways of figuring k