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The politics of zoom: Problems with downscaling climate visualizations

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dc.creatorSchneider, Birgit
dc.creatorWalsh, Lynda
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-26T14:25:12Z
dc.date.available2020-05-26T14:25:12Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractFollowing 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.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/geo2.70
dc.identifier.doi10.25932/publishup-42481
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/13838
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/14780
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-424819
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversität Potsdam
dc.publisherWiley
dc.publisher.placePotsdam
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2054-4049
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:1866-8380
dc.relation.ispartofseriesGeo: Geography and Environment
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectZoomde
dc.subjectKlimawandelde
dc.subjectclimate changeen
dc.subjectclimate servicesen
dc.subjectclimate visualizationen
dc.subjectconnectivityen
dc.subjectdownscalingen
dc.subjectsphericalen
dc.subjectsynopticismen
dc.subjectzoomen
dc.subject.ddcddc:500
dc.titleThe politics of zoom: Problems with downscaling climate visualizationsen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2021-05-29T01:00:31
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.70
local.source.epage11
local.source.issue1
local.source.spage1
local.source.volume6

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