The anthroposcene of weather and climate : ethnographic contributions to the climate change debate / Paul Sillitoe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sillitoe, Paul, author.

Contributor:

Sillitoe, Paul, editor.

Knowledge Unlatched, Funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Social aspects.

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on.

Weather--Effect of human beings on.

Weather.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 339 pages)

Other Title:

Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, [2021]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"While it is widely acknowledged that climate change is among the greatest global challenges of our times, it has local implications too. This volume forefronts these local issues, giving anthropology a voice in this great debate, which is otherwise dominated by natural scientists and policy makers. It shows what an ethnographic focus can offer in furthering our understanding of the lived realities of climate debates. Contributors from communities around the world discuss local knowledge of, and responses to, environmental changes that need to feature in scientifically framed policies regarding mitigation and adaptation measures if they are to be effective"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : introducing the anthroposcene of weather and climate / Paul Sillitoe

There's something in the air, but what? : on Amazon people's perception of atmospheric phenomena / Dan Rosengren

Climate change, weather and perception : fishing in eastern Patagonia / Francesca Marin

Indigenous responses to climate change in extreme environments : the cases of the Q'eros (Peruvian Andes) and the Gwich'in (Alaska) / Nastassja Martin and Geremia Cometti

Fornicating frogs : local knowledge of climate change in Bangladesh? / Paul Sillitoe and Mahbub Alam

Weather, agency and values at work in a glacier ski resort in Austria / Herta Nöbauer

The moral climate of melting glaciers : Andean claims for justice at the Paris Climate Change Summit / Noah Walker-Crawford

From climate knowledge to decision making user interface : making sense of climate science / Maria Ines Carabajal and Cecilia Hidalgo

Practising anthropology by providing climate services for farmers : the case of science field shops in Indonesia / Yunita T. Winarto

Governmental climate change Agencies and policies in Nepal / Pasang Yangjee Sherpa

Down to air : Palestinian memories and practices of weather relatedness / Mauro Van Aken

Imagining nations and producing climate change knowledge in Brazil / André S. Bailão

Embanking the sundarbans : the obfuscating discourse of climate change / Camelia Dewan

Afterword / David Shankland.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (Worldcat, viewed March 23, 2023).

ISBN:

9781800732780

1800732783

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800732315

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access