2021
DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2021.518759
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Climate Change Totems and Discursive Hegemony Over the Arctic

Abstract: The Arctic and its animals figure prominently as icons of climate change in Western imaginaries. Persuasive storytelling centred on compelling animal icons, like the polar bear, is a powerful strategy to frame environmental challenges, mobilizing collective global efforts to resist environmental degradation and species endangerment. The power of the polar bear in Western climate imagery is in part derived from the perceived “environmental sacredness” of the animal that has gained a totem-like status. In domina… Show more

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“…In the depicted moment -the chakra, which opens the third eye, informing about the birth of a man and his departure, with an effort of brush the artist conveys his thoughts about the frailty of life, about the transience of life (16). In the lower right corner of the painting are inscriptions "Aruah" (translation from Kazakh of the spirit of the deceased), in three languages: runic, Cyrillic, Latin; in this word the call of the ancestors, patronage, energy support.…”
Section: Figure 4 Jambul -Photo Of the Author1996mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the depicted moment -the chakra, which opens the third eye, informing about the birth of a man and his departure, with an effort of brush the artist conveys his thoughts about the frailty of life, about the transience of life (16). In the lower right corner of the painting are inscriptions "Aruah" (translation from Kazakh of the spirit of the deceased), in three languages: runic, Cyrillic, Latin; in this word the call of the ancestors, patronage, energy support.…”
Section: Figure 4 Jambul -Photo Of the Author1996mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Climate change science research typically excludes an examination of the sociocultural risks and aspects of life and how climate change affects people's lives (Tam et al, 2021). More recently, the body of work on the impacts of climate changes on people and communities has been growing (Awatere et al, 2021).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%