Cooling Down: Local Responses to Global Climate Change
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781800731899 |
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Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
Publication date: | 02/11/2022 |
Pages: | 402 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Susanna Hoffman is an internationally recognized expert on disaster. She is the author, co-author, and editor of twelve books, including Disaster Upon Disaster: Exploring the Gap Between r Knowledge, Policy and Practice (Berghahn, 2019). She initiated the Risk and Disaster Thematic Interest Group for the Society for Applied Anthropology and is the founder and chair of the Risk and Disaster Commission for the International Union of Anthropology and Ethnographic Sciences.
Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Foundation. Among his recent books are Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change (Pluto Press, 2016), and the co-edited, with Astrid Stensrud, Climate, Capitalism and Communities (Pluto Press, 2019).
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Scaling Down in Order to Cool Down Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Paulo Mendes
Part I: Ways of Knowing
Chapter 1. Environmental Pluralism: Knowing the Namibian Weather in Times of Climate Change Michael Schnegg
Chapter 2. How a Storm Feels: Storying Climate Change in the Eastern Himalayas Alex Aisher
Chapter 3. Who is Perturbed by Perturbations? Marine Scientists’ and Polynesian Fishers’ Understandings of a Crown-of-Thorns Starfish Outbreak Matthew Lauer, Terava Atger, Sally J. Holbrook, Andrew Rassweiler, Russell J. Schmitt, and Jean Wencelius
Chapter 4. Urban Transformations in the Hydric Landscapes of Belém (PA): Environmental Memories and Urban Flood Pedro Paulo de Miranda Araujo Soares
Part II: Situations and Decisions
Chapter 5. Climate Change and Mitigation in Bangladesh: Vulnerability in Urban Locations Tasneem Siddiqui, Mohammad Jalal Uddin Sikder and Mohammad Rashed Alam Bhuiyan
Chapter 6. Localizing Climate Change: Confronting Over-simplification of Local Responses Brian Orland, Meredith Welch-Devine, and Micah Taylor
Chapter 7. 'The Times They Are a-Changin' but 'The Song Remains The Same': Climate Change Narratives from the Coromandel Peninsula, Aotearoa New Zealand Paul Schneider and Bruce Glavovic
Chapter 8. Climate Change and East Africa's Past: Three Cautionary Tales A. Peter Castro
Chapter 9. “Our Existence is Literally Melting Away”: Narrative and Fighting Climate Change in a Glacier Ski Resort in Austria Herta Nobauer
Part III: Politics, Policies, and Contestation
Chapter 10. Where Floods Are Allowed: Climate Adaptation as Defiant Acceptance in the Elbe River Valley Kristoffer Albris
Chapter 11. Climate Resilience Through Equity and Justice: Holistic Leadership by Tribal Nations and Indigenous Communities in the Southwest United States Julie Maldonado and Beth Rose Middleton
Chapter 12. The Return of What Has Not Been Gone: A View of Animal Presence in Future Natures Guilherme José da Silva e Sá
Chapter 13. Emitting Inequity: The Socio-Political Life of Anthropogenic Climate Change in Oaxaca, Mexico Roberto E. Barrios and Amanda Leppert
Chapter 14. Disaster and Climate Change Susanna M. Hoffman
Afterword: Toward Eco-Socialism as a Global and Local Strategy to Cool Down the World-System Hans A. Baer
Index