Cooling Down: Local Responses to Global Climate Change

✍ Scribed by Susanna Hoffman; Thomas Hylland Eriksen; Paulo Mendes (editors)

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 402
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Climate change is a slowly advancing crisis sweeping over the planet and affecting different habitats in strikingly diverse ways. While nations have signed treaties and implemented policies, most actual climate change assessments, adaptations, and countermeasures take place at the local level. People are responding by adjusting their practices, livelihoods, and cultures, protesting and migrating. This book portrays the diversity of explanations and remedies as expressed at the community level and its emphasis on the crucial importance of ethnographic detail in demonstrating how people in different parts of the world are scaling down the phenomenon of global warming.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Scaling Down in Order to Cool Down
Part I. Ways of Knowing
Chapter 1 Environmental Pluralism: Knowing the Namibian Weather in Times of Climate Change
Chapter 2 How a Storm Feels: Storying Climate Change in the Eastern Himalayas
Chapter 3 Who Is Perturbed by Ecological Perturbations? Marine Scientists’ and Polynesian Fishers’ Understandings of a Crown-of-Thorns Starfish Outbreak
Chapter 4 Urban Transformations in the Hydric Landscapes of Belém, Brazil: Environmental Memories and Urban Floods
Part II. Situations and Decisions
Chapter 5 Climate Change and Mitigation in Bangladesh: Vulnerability in Urban Locations
Chapter 6 Localizing Climate Change: Confronting Oversimplification of Local Responses
Chapter 7 “The Times They Are A-Changin’” but “The Song Remains the Same”: Climate Change Narratives from the Coromandel Peninsula, Aotearoa New Zealand
Chapter 8 Climate Change and East Africa’s Past: Three Cautionary Tales
Chapter 9 “Our Existence Is Literally Melting Away”: Narrating and Fighting Climate Change in a Glacier Ski Resort in Austria
Part III. Politics, Policies, and Contestation
Chapter 10 Where Floods Are Allowed: Climate Adaptation as Defiant Acceptance in the Elbe River Valley
Chapter 11 Climate Resilience through Equity and Justice: Holistic Leadership by Tribal Nations and Indigenous Communities in the Southwestern United States
Chapter 12 The Return to What Has Never Been: A View on the Animal Presence in Future Natures
Chapter 13 Emitting Inequity: The Sociopolitical Life of Anthropogenic Climate Change in Oaxaca, Mexico
Chapter 14 Disaster and Climate Change
Afterword. Toward Eco-Socialism as a Global and Local Strategy to Cool Down the World-System
Index