Monica’s dissertation, Feeling the Changing Climate: An affective approach to the strategic communication of floods in a tourist city, explores how climate change is strategically communicated in Venice. Through an atmospheric ethnography, she demonstrates how emotions and affective atmospheres shape the understanding of floods and the climate crisis, and how different actors mobilize collective feelings to influence perceptions of climate change.
The prize is awarded by the Royal Society of Sciences in Lund and is funded through dedicated foundations to promote research in humanities and social sciences.
