Climate Cultures : Anthropological Perspectives on Climate Change / Jessica Barnes, Michael R. Dove.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barnes, Jessica, Editor.

Dove, Michael R., Editor.

Series:

Yale agrarian studies.

Yale Agrarian Studies Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes.

Human ecology--Cross-cultural studies.

Human ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our times, yet also seemingly intractable. This book offers novel insights on this contemporary challenge, drawing together the state-of-the-art thinking in anthropology. Approaching climate change as a nexus of nature, culture, science, politics, and belief, the book reveals nuanced ways of understanding the relationships between society and climate, science and the state, certainty and uncertainty, global and local that are manifested in climate change debates. The contributors address three major areas of inquiry: how climate change issues have been framed in previous times compared to the present; how knowledge about climate change and its impacts is produced and interpreted by different groups; and how imagination plays a role in shaping conceptions of climate change.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. Historic Decentering of the Modern Discourse of Climate Change: The Long View from the Vedic Sages to Montesquieu

2. How Long-Standing Debates Have Shaped Recent Climate Change Discourses

3. From Conservation and Development to Climate Change: Anthropological Engagements with REDD+ in Vietnam

4. Glacial Dramas: Typos, Projections, and Peer Review in the Fourth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

5. Scale and Agency: Climate Change and the Future of Egypt's Water

6. Satellite Imagery and Community Perceptions of Climate Change Impacts and Landscape Change

7. Challenges in Integrating the Climate and Social Sciences for Studies of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation

8. Imagining Forest Futures and Climate Change: The Mexican State as Insurance Broker and Storyteller

9. Digging Deeper into the Why: Cultural Dimensions of Climate Change Skepticism Among Scientists

10. The Uniqueness of the Everyday: Herders and Invasive Species in India

11. Climate Shock and Awe: Can There Be an "Ethno-Science" of Deep-Time Mande Palaeoclimate Memory?

Afterword: The Many Uses of Climate Change

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

OCLC:

910553653