Changing Seasonality : How Communities are Revising their Seasons / Scott Bremer, Arjan Wardekker, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bremer, Scott, editor.

Wardekker, Arjan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climate change adaptation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIII, 251 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, 2024.

Summary:

Communities worldwide are critically re-examining their seasonal cultures and calendars. As cultural frameworks, seasons have long patterned community life and provided repertoires for living by annual rhythms. In a chaotic world, the seasons - winter, the monsoon and so on - can feel like stable cultural landmarks for reckoning time and orienting our communities. Seasons are rooted in our pasts and reproduced in our present. They act as schemes for synchronising community activities and professional practices, and as symbol systems for interpreting what happens in the world. But on closer inspection, seasons can be unstable and unreliable. Their meanings can change over time. Seasonal cultures evolve with environments and communities' worldviews, values, technologies and practices, affecting how people perceive seasonal patterns and behave accordingly. Calendars are contested, especially now. Communities today find themselves in a moment of accelerated and intersecting changes - from climate to social, political, and technological - that are destabilizing seasonal cultures. How they reorient themselves to shifting patterns may affect whether seasonal rhythms serve as resources, or lead people down maladaptive pathways. A focus on seasonal cultures builds on multi-disciplinary work. The social sciences, from anthropology to sociology, have long studied how seasons order people's sense of time, social life, relationship to the environment, and politics. In the humanities, seasons play an important role in literature, art, archaeology and history. This book advances scholarship in these fields, and enriches it with extrascientific insights from practice, to open up exiting new directions in climate adaptation.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Contents

List of images

1 When seasons no longer hold

Part I Evolving history &amp

heritage

2 Healing roots and unsettling legacies

3 Thinking with the primstav today

4 Enchanting cyclical time: Living through the Wheel of the Year

5 Exploring dynamic eco-calendars for a modern world

6 Claiming the winds: Monsoon in the Indian Ocean

7 While waiting for the sea ice: Stories of changes from Ittoqqortoormiit (Kalaallit Nunaat)

8 Chasing the seasons: Pehuenche experiences of rapid socioecological change in the Southern Andes Part II Relations to nature

9 Gifts of the plant world

10 Taking a chance in unseasonable environments

11 Plants in a world of changing seasons P

12 Unseen seaweed seasonalities

13 Feral swans and frightening encounters

14 Crimson Calamity

Part III Creativity and the arts

15 Tilting the frame: How the seasonal characteristics of light informs image

16 The nature of art: Working with changing seasonalities

17 Simulating seasons in virtual reality

18 Dark seasonality in videogames

19 Seasons in time: Bases, threats and opportunities. A triptych of poetic theory Part IV Rhythms of daily life

20 Time is out of joint: Disruptive seasonalities of the AnthropoScene

21 The seasons of a new home: Learning with heat and light

22 Outside-In: Restor(y)ing the Seasons

23 Telling the year by the rugby season, and getting confused

24 Apps and me: How apps are shaping my experience of the New Zealand environment and seasons 25 Fire and snow: The changing nature of seasonal work in a Canadian mountain town

25 Fire and snow: The changing nature of seasonal work in a Canadian mountain town

26 How seasonal is gin? 27 Losing seasons in the landscape: When the bee season falls out of synchrony

28 I have bee-s/-n up there

29 A new season for climate change science and praxis?

30 Forecasting Seasons: Using seasonal forecasts to decide agricultural rhythms in East Africa

Part VI Planning &amp

engineering

31 New seasons on a tropical island

32 From grey to green infrastructure in a changing climate

33 Artifacts and seasonality: How we guide the built environment through time

34 Weather and infrastructure: The Flax Road

35 Conclusion: Negotiating changing seasonality Com

Index.

Notes:

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