Garde-Hansen, Joanne, McEwen, Lindsey and Jones, Owain (2016) Towards a memo-techno-ecology : mediating memories of extreme flooding in resilient communities. In: Hajek, Andrea and Lohmeier, Christine and Pentzold, Christian, (eds.) Memory in a Mediated World : Remembrance and Reconstruction. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies . London: Palgrave Macmillan , pp. 55-73. ISBN 9781349566402

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In Emotion Online: Theorizing Affect on the Internet (2013), Garde-Hansen and Gorton textually analyse the online debates around climate change media that entangle the threat of bad weather with fears over race relations, war and political dissent. Drawing upon Brian Massumi’s work, which combines extreme weather and war into a discursively connected ‘threat-form’ of ‘the suddenly irrupting, locally self-organizing, system- ically self-amplifying threat of large-scale disruption’ (2011, p. 20), the authors propose the concept of an emo-techno-ecology. This addresses the way these changing-environment fears exist ‘trans-medially’ as well as at ‘hyper-local’ levels. Thus, they argue that ‘we need to understand our mediated ecology along two wavelengths simultaneously: as local and global emotions’ or as ‘global emo-scapes’ in which citizens are affectively connected to their environment as ‘technologically enabled infotainment producers/consumers’ (2013, p. 128). More broadly, Brace and Geoghegan (2011), writing in the context of human geography, argue that climate change is encountered holistically, not just in how it is understood ‘top-down’ through the communication of scientific discourses but relationally at a local level:
Climate change can be observed in relation to landscape but also felt, sensed, apprehended emotionally as part of the fabric of everyday life in which acceptance, denial, resignation and action co-exist as personal and social responses to the local manifestations of a global problem. (Brace & Geoghegan, 2011, p. 284)

Item Type:	Book Item
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies > Centre for Cultural Policy Studies
Series Name:	Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication:	London
ISBN:	9781349566402
Book Title:	Memory in a Mediated World : Remembrance and Reconstruction
Editor:	Hajek, Andrea and Lohmeier, Christine and Pentzold, Christian
Official Date:	1 January 2016
Dates:	Date Event 1 January 2016 Published
Page Range:	pp. 55-73
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Funder:	Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC)
Grant number:	ES/I003576/2

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