The politics of zoom: Problems with downscaling climate visualizations
The politics of zoom: Problems with downscaling climate visualizations
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缩放的政治：缩小气候可视化的问题
DOI：
10.1002/geo2.70
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发表时间：
2019
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L. Walsh
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作者：
B. Schneider;L. Walsh
资助信息Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität m<s:1> nchen，资助/奖励号码：雷切尔·卡森中心短期奖学金根据《巴黎协定》要求签署国向其选民提供“气候服务”的要求，“缩小规模”的气候可视化正在激增。但是，缩小气候可视化规模的过程并不能消除其全球概率论来源的政治问题——即，它们未能授权社区采取行动，并复制了全球化的新自由主义范式。在本研究中，我们研究了这些问题，因为它们适用于交互式气候可视化平台，该平台允许其用户本地化全球气候信息，以支持当地的政治行动。通过从媒体研究和修辞学的角度审视“缩放”工具的政治含义，我们增加了文化制图学的视角，从我们的领域缩放问题。也就是说，我们打破了“变焦”的电影修辞，以揭示它如何将天气论的政治问题引入到个体社区的层面。作为变焦政治的潜在解药，我们建议采取缩小连通性的策略，将气候观点与全球观点联系起来，而不是将其缩小。
Funding information Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Grant/Award Number: Rachel Carson Center Short-Term Fellowship Following the mandate in the Paris Agreement for signatories to provide “climate services” to their constituents, “downscaled” climate visualizations are proliferating. But the process of downscaling climate visualizations does not neutralize the political problems with their synoptic global sources—namely, their failure to empower communities to take action and their replication of neoliberal paradigms of globalization. In this study we examine these problems as they apply to interactive climate‐visualization platforms, which allow their users to localize global climate information to support local political action. By scrutinizing the political implications of the “zoom” tool from the perspective of media studies and rhetoric, we add to perspectives of cultural cartography on the issue of scaling from our fields. Namely, we break down the cinematic trope of “zooming” to reveal how it imports the political problems of synopticism to the level of individual communities. As a potential antidote to the politics of zoom, we recommend a downscaling strategy of connectivity, which associates rather than reduces situated views of climate to global ones.