Scholars
Teresa Clare Ashe
The Open University
Based in
United Kingdom
Europe
Teresa Ashe is a Staff Tutor (Lecturer) in Economics at the Open University in the UK. Her research areas include the history of climate change, anti-environmental movements and environmental journalism/communication. She draws on science and technology studies (STS) approaches to understand power and knowledge in environmental politics with a particular interest in the role of expert discourse. Her research particularly looks at the similarities and differences between environmental thought in the US and Russia during and after the Cold War.
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Country(ies) of Specialty
Russia United StatesFocus areas of expertise
Climate policy and politics Communications research History Social movementsPublications
Articles
Ashe, T. (Forthcoming) ‘Cold War Environmentalism and Modernity’s Culture Wars’ in
Marshner N., Patz, J., Richter, C., Salheiser, A. (eds.) Contested Global
Climate Justice – Challenged Democracies. IDZ publications
Ashe, T (2024) ‘Book review: The will to predict: orchestrating the future through science by Eglė Rindzevičiūtė’.
Ashe, T and Poberezhskaya, M (2022) Russian climate scepticism: an understudied case (2022-06-28) Climatic Change, 172, Article 41(3-4)
Ashe, T (2021) ‘Book Review: Cold Science by Bocking, S and Heidt, D’ in Transnational, Cross-Regional and Global Connections available at: Rezension zu: S. Bocking: Cold science | Connections (clio-online.net) [Accessed: 16/06/23]
Poberezhskaya, M. and Ashe, T. (eds) (2019) Climate Change Discourse in Russia: Past and Present London: Routledge.
Ashe, T. (2013) ‘How the Media Report Risk and Uncertainty: A Review of the Literature’ Report for Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
Painter J and Ashe T (2012) a) ‘Cross-national comparison of the presence of climate scepticism in the print media in six countries, 2007 – 2010’ in Environmental Research Letters 7, 044003. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/044005. (20% contribution) b) This paper was also commended by Environmental Research Letters as a key paper of 2012 and reprinted in the journal’s ‘Highlights of 2012’.