Climate Change and Anthropos: Planet, People and Places

ISBN-13: 9780815355533 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 206 str.

Australia) Linda H. (University of Sydney Connor

Opis

This book offers a new way of thinking about the significance of locality and everyday life in relation to climate change. Many scholars now write about the ethics, policies and politics of climate change, focusing on global processes and effects. The book’s innovative approach to cross-cultural comparison and a regionally based ethnographic study moves beyond the political assertions and expert understandings filtered by the mass media. Rather, it asks fundamental questions about the social impact and cultural meanings of global warming and its impact on diverse human worlds embedded in a changing biosphere.

Recenzje

In this work, Connor (anthropology, Univ. of Sydney, Australia) brings an “anthropological approach” to the study of climate change. Connor illustrates the relationships between culture, ethics, and policy alongside peoples’ perceptions and experience of climate change as she moves between local and global scales and historical and current time frames. Following an overview of anthropological research related to climate change, the book surveys the experience of indigenous peoples living under the pressure of extreme weather in the Arctic and South Pacific. The book then turns to its main focus—an extended study in Australia’s Hunter Valley. There is a detailed history, stretching back into the region’s geologic past and continuing through its current status as a major coal mining location. This offers context for the thorough anthropological research, which provides an insightful look into the various ways that residents from diverse vantage points conceptualize climate change and, in turn, how this influences their response. Given the theoretically dense academic writing style, this work will be of greatest interest to individuals with a strong background in anthropology.
--J. L. Rhoades, Antioch University New England, February 2017 issue of CHOICE

Spis treści

Part 1: The Ecocosmic Sphere 1. Precarious places in a warming world  2. Life and time in a carboniferous zone  Part 2: Quotidian Worlds  3. Being in the weather  4. Living environmental change  Part 3: Counterpoints  5. Climate Activation  6. Fragile futurity

O autorze

Linda H. Connor is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Sydney, Australia.