Schlegel L (2023)
Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes
Publication year: 2023
Original Authors: Benno Heisel, Andreas Wehrl, Theresa Spielmann, Christina Wehrl
Publisher: Transkript
Edited Volumes: The 2051 Munich Climate Conference: Future Visions of Climate Change
Series: Neue Ökologie
Pages Range: 18-25
ISBN: 9783837663846
DOI: 10.14361/9783839463840-004
Early 21st century climate research and policy focused mainly on technological innovation to continue the status quo. Fundamental societal change remained absent and leaves us with the uncertainties of a world of 2.8°C warming. This article argues that we should have put more emphasis on the social and cultural aspects of transformation and thus paid more attention to sociological knowledge. By looking at the role of ideas and values, emotions and temporalities for climate inaction, I illustrate how thinking with the sociological imagination could have helped bridge the gaps between knowledge and action on climate change
APA:
Schlegel, L. (2023). Another world was possible: How sociological imagination could have helped solve the climate crisis. In Benno Heisel, Andreas Wehrl, Theresa Spielmann, Christina Wehrl (Eds.), The 2051 Munich Climate Conference: Future Visions of Climate Change. (pp. 18-25). Transkript.
MLA:
Schlegel, Lena. "Another world was possible: How sociological imagination could have helped solve the climate crisis." The 2051 Munich Climate Conference: Future Visions of Climate Change. Ed. Benno Heisel, Andreas Wehrl, Theresa Spielmann, Christina Wehrl, Transkript, 2023. 18-25.
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