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Acknowledgments
Some of the first ideas for this book emerged from conversations during Carvalho’s sabbatical at the Institute for Environmental Policy Analysis (IVM) of the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in the spring of 2009. She would like to thank Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia for her sabbatical stipend (SFRH/BSAB/901/2009). Conversations with Joyeeta Gupta, Dave Huitema, Eleftheria Vasileiadou, Frans van der Woerd, Constanze Haug, and others were especially stimulating. In the process of coediting a special issue for Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, Carvalho and Peterson discovered a mutual interest in pursuing a project that integrated analytical and aesthetic approaches to studying climate change communication as it contributes to the political (as defined by Mouffe). Peterson would like to thank Cristián Alarcón, Hans Peter Hansen, Nadarajah Sriskandarajah, and other members of the Environmental Communication Program at the Swedish Agricultural University for conversations probing possible relationships between communication and politics. She also would like to thank the other members of JET for keeping her on her toes when examining the interconnections among communication, policy, and politics related to climate change. Along the way, the following reviewers offered valuable suggestions for chapter revisions: