Reculturing and Particularizing Climate Discourses: Weather, Identity, and the Work of Gordon Manley
Reculturing and Particularizing Climate Discourses: Weather, Identity, and the Work of Gordon Manley
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气候话语的重构和具体化：天气、身份和戈登·曼利的工作
作者：
G. Endfield
在过去的三十年里，气候的流行话语已经被一个全球性的和科学的元叙事所取代，重点是气候变化和全球变暖。因此，最近的气候学术研究强调了重新审视气候及其文化和空间可变维度的必要性，尽管对一些高调出版物中重新出现的气候决定论的焦虑加剧了对探索气候对社会影响的学术研究的不情愿。本文重点介绍英国气象学家和地理学家戈登·曼利的工作，他的出版物，特别是那些在20世纪后半叶为大众制作的出版物，重点关注战后英国的气候，地点和身份之间的关系。我认为，他的方法可能有新的意义，鉴于最近的努力，重新特殊化和重新培养气候变化的话语。
During the last three decades, popular discourses of climate have been replaced by a global and scientific metanarrative focusing on climate change and global warming. Recent climate scholarship has thus highlighted the need for a reexamination of the idea of climate and its culturally and spatially variable dimensions, though anxieties over the reemergence of climatic determinism in a number of high-profile publications have compounded a reluctance to engage in scholarship exploring the influence of climate on society. This article focuses on the work of British meteorologist and geographer Gordon Manley, whose publications, particularly those produced for popular audiences in the second half of the twentieth century, focus on the relationships between climate, place, and identity in postwar Britain. I argue that his approach may have renewed significance given recent efforts to reparticularize and reculture climate change discourses.