master narratives & global climate change
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Master Narratives & Global Climate Change. Getting Past “Not Yet”. Charlie Vars Dave Bella Court Smith January 22, 2013. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Master Narratives &
Global Climate Change
Charlie VarsDave BellaCourt Smith
January 22, 2013
Getting Past “Not Yet”
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A master narrative is coherent system of interrelated and sequentially organized stories that frame a common rhetorical script to establish audience expectations in support of a positive or negative perspective.
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Competing Climate Narratives
Economic Ecological
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SCIENCE WILL INFORMPOLICY
Science Frame for Policy Making
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A frame consists of the mental representations, interpretations, and simplifications of reality used to communicate positive or negative perspectives to a target audience.
A master narrative is coherent system of interrelated and sequentially organized stories that frame a common rhetorical script to establish audience expectations in support of a positive or negative perspective.
Framing Master Narratives
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A frame consists of the mental representations, interpretations, and simplifications of reality used to communicate positive or negative perspectives to a target audience.
Framing
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A master narrative is coherent system of interrelated and sequentially organized stories that frame a common rhetorical script to establish audience expectations in support of a positive or negative perspective.
Master narratives are
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Good narratives are
Simple Concrete Explanatory Realistic
Compelling narratives foster the illusion of reality.
(Kahneman 2011:199-200)
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…limitation of our mind:
our exclusive confidence in what we believe we know, and our apparent inability to acknowledge the full extend of our ignorance and the uncertainty of the world we live in …
(Kahneman 2011:13-14)
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our exclusive confidence in what we believe we know, and our apparent inability to acknowledge the full extend of our ignorance and the uncertainty of the world we live in …
…limitation of our mind:
(Kahneman 2011:13-14)
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The frame for thinking about climate change has action stuck at “yes, but NOT YET, more research is needed”
The basic frame