Climate cultures: anthropological perspectives on climate change / edited by Jessica Barnes and Michael R. Dove

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Preface.. Introduction.. Part I. Historicizing Climate Change.. Historic Decentering of the Modern Discourse of Climate Change: The Long View from the Vedic Sages to Montesquieu.. How Long-Standing Debates Have Shaped Recent Climate Change Discourses.. From Conservation and Development to Climate Change: Anthropological Engagements with REDD+ in Vietnam.. Part II. Knowing Climate change.. Glacial Dramas: Typos, Projections, and Peer Review in the Fourth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.. Scale and Agency: Climate Change and the Future of Egypt's Water.. Satellite Imagery and Community Perceptions of Climate Change Impacts and Landscape Change.. Challenges in Integrating the Climate and Social Sciences for Studies of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation.. Part III. Imagining Climate Change.. Imagining Forest Futures and Climate Change: The Mexican State as Insurance Broker and Storyteller.. Digging Deeper into the Why: Cultural Dimensions of Climate Change Skepticism Among Scientists.. The Uniqueness of the Everyday: Herders and Invansive Species in India.. Climate Shock and Awe: Can There Be an "Ethno-Science" of Deep-Time Mande Palaeoclimate Memory?.. Afterword: The Many Uses of Climate change.. List of Contributors.. Index

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. eng