UID:
edocfu_9959231534402883
Format:
1 online resource (328 p.)
ISBN:
9780300213577
Series Statement:
Yale Agrarian Studies Series
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Preface --
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Introduction --
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1. Historic Decentering of the Modern Discourse of Climate Change: The Long View from the Vedic Sages to Montesquieu --
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2. How Long-Standing Debates Have Shaped Recent Climate Change Discourses --
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3. From Conservation and Development to Climate Change: Anthropological Engagements with REDD+ in Vietnam --
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4. Glacial Dramas: Typos, Projections, and Peer Review in the Fourth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change --
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5. Scale and Agency: Climate Change and the Future of Egypt's Water --
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6. Satellite Imagery and Community Perceptions of Climate Change Impacts and Landscape Change --
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7. Challenges in Integrating the Climate and Social Sciences for Studies of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation --
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8. Imagining Forest Futures and Climate Change: The Mexican State as Insurance Broker and Storyteller --
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9. Digging Deeper into the Why: Cultural Dimensions of Climate Change Skepticism Among Scientists --
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10. The Uniqueness of the Everyday: Herders and Invasive Species in India --
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11. Climate Shock and Awe: Can There Be an "Ethno-Science" of Deep-Time Mande Palaeoclimate Memory? --
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Afterword: The Many Uses of Climate Change --
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Contributors --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-300-19881-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-300-21357-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.12987/9780300213577
