Climate Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives on Climate Change
Jessica Barnes and Michael R Dove
Abstract
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our times, yet also seemingly intractable. This book draws 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 new ways of thinking about the complex 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 th ... More
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our times, yet also seemingly intractable. This book draws 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 new ways of thinking about the complex 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.
Keywords:
Anthropology of climate change,
Climate change knowledge,
Historical perspectives on climate change,
Imagination and climate change,
Climate change impacts/adaptation/mitigation,
Inter-disciplinary issues in climate change scholarship
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780300198812 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: January 2016 |
DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300198812.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Jessica Barnes, editor
University of South Carolina
Michael R Dove, editor
Yale University
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