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Critical issues in social science climate change research

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  • Catherine Leyshon

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This paper examines the challenges and opportunities for social scientists working on climate change research. Much work is required to expose and destabilise taken-for-granted assumptions about: (i) the nature of climate change, its complex ontology and knowledge-making practices; and (ii) how academic knowledge is made at the expense of other ways of knowing, doing and being in the world. I examine the relationship between the natural and social sciences, the epistemological question of what people are, and the multiple spaces, sites and practices across which and about which social science research on climate change is being produced.

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  • Catherine Leyshon, 2014. "Critical issues in social science climate change research," Contemporary Social Science, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 9(4), pages 359-373, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rsocxx:v:9:y:2014:i:4:p:359-373
    DOI: 10.1080/21582041.2014.974890
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    1. Emily Tyler & Marta Torres Gunfaus, 2016. "Reflecting on the South African Long-Term Mitigation Scenario Process a Decade Later," Development, Palgrave Macmillan;Society for International Deveopment, vol. 59(3), pages 328-334, December.
    2. Nick Nash & Lorraine Whitmarsh & Stuart Capstick & Valdiney Gouveia & Rafaella Carvalho Rodrigues Araújo & Monika Santos & Romeo Palakatsela & Yuebai Liu & Marie K. Harder & Xiao Wang, 2020. "Local climate change cultures: climate-relevant discursive practices in three emerging economies," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 163(1), pages 63-82, November.

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