2024
DOI: 10.1177/09579265231222005
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The potential of creative uses of metonymy for climate protest

Niamh A O’Dowd

Abstract: This paper develops the notion of metonymy scenarios by exploring the social and cognitive dimensions of various creative uses of metonymy in a collection of digital banners created for the Global Climate Strike movement. The paper argues that the banners exploit existing metonymic relationships to activate dominant anthropocentric discourses in society, and to subvert them via processes of recontextualisation and reappropriation, in order to challenge system conventions and normative attitudes regarding clima… Show more

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