This sociological study treats climate change not primarily as a scientific or technical problem, but as a cultural and political phenomenon that shapes how people construct meaning about the present and envision possible futures. While exploring how climate change is understood, debated, and imagined across different groups in contemporary society, the central argument is that climate change functions as a “sociotechnical imaginary”: a space where scientific knowledge, political projects, and cultural narratives are co-produced to create competing visions of social life and collective possibility.
The research is structured around four analytical dimensions: it examines how scientific authority is constructed and contested, particularly how uncertainty in climate prediction is exploited by denialist groups; it analyzes the politics of time and how societies imagine their futures differently depending on their relationship to power and resources; and it investigates how young people experience and respond to climate crisis through activism, treating their emotions and political engagement as socially organized rather than merely individual. Finally, it studies Italian climate fiction as a cultural laboratory where authors experiment with narrative forms to represent environmental transformation. Throughout, the work connects these dimensions to show how struggles over the meaning of climate change reflect deeper conflicts about responsibility, justice, and the possibility of systemic change.
Rather than offering prescriptive solutions, the study illuminates how the future itself has become a battleground where competing imaginaries (dystopian, utopian, and pragmatic) shape what collective action appears possible or necessary in the present.
DATI BIBLIOGRAFICI
A cura di: Enzo Colombo, Fiammetta Corradi, Lorenzo Domaneschi
Editore: Ledizioni
Collana: Interventi
Pubblicato in: ottobre 2026
Lingua: inglese
Formato: brossura, 131 p. – ePub – PDF in OA
ISBN cartaceo: 9791256008919
ISBN ePub: 9791256008926
ISBN PDF OA: 9791256008995
Prezzo cartaceo: 18,00 €
Prezzo ePub: 8,99 €
