Climate cultures: anthropological perspectives on climate change

✍ Scribed by Barnes, Jessica(Editor);Dove, Michael R(Editor)

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Year: 2015;2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 328
• Series: Yale agrarian studies
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Part I. Historicizing Climate Change......Page 32
1 Historic Decentering of the Modern Discourse of Climate Change: The Long View from the Vedic Sages to Montesquieu......Page 34
2 How Long-Standing Debates Have Shaped Recent Climate Change Discourses......Page 57
3 From Conservation and Development to Climate Change: Anthropological Engagements with REDD+ in Vietnam......Page 91
Part II. Knowing Climate Change......Page 114
4 Glacial Dramas: Typos, Projections, and Peer Review in the Fourth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change......Page 116
5 Scale and Agency: Climate Change and the Future of Egypt’s Water......Page 136
6 Satellite Imagery and Community Perceptions of Climate Change Impacts and Landscape Change......Page 155
7 Challenges in Integrating the Climate and Social Sciences for Studies of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation......Page 178
Part III. Imagining Climate Change......Page 206
8 Imagining Forest Futures and Climate Change: The Mexican State as Insurance Broker and Storyteller......Page 208
9 Digging Deeper into the Why: Cultural Dimensions of Climate Change Skepticism Among Scientists......Page 230
10 The Uniqueness of the Everyday: Herders and Invasive Species in India......Page 258
11 Climate Shock and Awe: Can There Be an “Ethno-Science” of Deep-Time Mande Palaeoclimate Memory?......Page 282
Afterword: The Many Uses of Climate Change......Page 298
List of Contributors......Page 310
A......Page 316
B......Page 317
C......Page 318
E......Page 319
G......Page 320
I......Page 321
K......Page 322
M......Page 323
N......Page 324
R......Page 325
S......Page 326
U......Page 327
Z......Page 328