The Anthropology of Climate Change: An Integrated Critical Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781138574847 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str.

Hans A. Baer; Merrill Singer

Opis

In addressing the urgent questions raised by climate change, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the anthropology of climate change guided by a critical political ecological framework.

This second edition is fully updated to include the most recent literature published since the first edition in 2014. It also examines a number of new topics including the policy statements and actions of Donald Trump on climate change, the work of psychologists, historians, philosophers, and cultural studies academics and the recent debates around the concept of the Anthropocene.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Climate turmoil: introducing a socioecological model of human action, environmental impact, and mounting vulnerability  2. The emergence and maturation of the anthropology of climate change  3. The archaeology of climate change  4. Theoretical perspectives in the anthropology of climate change  5. Case studies in the anthropology of climate change  6. Applications of anthropological research on climate change  7. What are other social scientists saying about climate change  8. Conclusion: toward a critical integrated social science of climate change