Climate, Culture, Change Inuit and Western Dialogues with a Warming North / Timothy B. Leduc.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leduc, Timothy B., 1970-

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012

Place of Publication:

Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, 2010

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Every day brings new headlines about climate change as politicians debate how to respond, scientists offer new data, and skeptics critique the validity of the research. To step outside these scientific and political debates, Timothy Leduc engages with various Inuit understandings of northern climate change. What he learns is that today's climate changes are not only affecting our environments, but also our cultures. By focusing on the changes currently occurring in the north, he highlights the challenges being posed to Western climate research, Canadian politics and traditional Inuit knowledge.

Climate, Culture, Change sheds light on the cultural challenges posed by northern warming and proposes an intercultural response that is demonstrated by the blending of Inuit and Western perspectives."

Contents:

Endangered knowledge

Sila wisdom for a time of change

Researching Gaia's uncertain climate

Canadian call for a global conscience

Colonial apologies from Canada?

American fuel for a global apocalypse

Making carbon confessions to Sedna

Our climatic challenge.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-255) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613668424

9781280691485

1280691484

9780776619408

0776619403

OCLC:

727730957