Extreme Weather and Global Media

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This timely collection takes a close look at contemporary representations of extreme weather in global media. Seeking to better understand the political implications embedded within public affective responses as well as official narratives of extreme weather, contributors argue that weather television is part of a representational matrix through which audiences re-assess the security of late capitalism and social democratic logics. Specifically, the book aruges that the intense promotion and consumption of "extreme weather" events takes up the slack for the public conversations society is not having about climate change and the feeling of powerlessness that accompanies the realization that depreciation of natural resources has now reached a point of no return. Despite the increasing frequency of superstorms and extreme weather events, there is not yet a comprehensive analysis of these extreme environmental media events--this book promises to fill that gap.