[PDF] Climate Cultures eBook

Author : Jessica Barnes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 21,90 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300198817

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Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our times, yet global solutions have proved elusive. This book draws together cutting-edge anthropological research to uncover new ways of approaching the critical questions that surround climate change. Leading anthropologists engage in three major areas of inquiry: how climate change issues have been framed in previous times compared to present-day discourse, 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.

Author : Sarah A. Lanier
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 2004-02-01
Category : Communication and culture
ISBN : 9781581580723

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Foreign to Familiar is a splendidly written, well-researched work on cultures. Anyone traveling abroad should not leave home without this valuable resource! I highly recommend it as required reading for cross-cultural workers. Sarah Lanier's love and sensitivity for people of all nations will touch your heart. This book creates within us a greater appreciation for our extended families around the world and an increased desire to better serve them. - Dr. Kingsley A. Fletcher President, Hope for Africa, Inc. [on back cover].

Author : Mike Hulme
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 12,45 MB
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1473959039

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Climate is an enduring idea of the human mind and also a powerful one. Today, the idea of climate is most commonly associated with the discourse of climate-change and its scientific, political, economic, social, religious and ethical dimensions. However, to understand adequately the cultural politics of climate-change it is important to establish the different origins of the idea of climate itself and the range of historical, political and cultural work that the idea of climate accomplishes. In Weathered: Cultures of Climate, distinguished professor Mike Hulme opens up the many ways in which the idea of climate is given shape and meaning in different human cultures – how climates are historicized, known, changed, lived with, blamed, feared, represented, predicted, governed and, at least putatively, re-designed.

Author : Andrew J. Hoffman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 49,97 MB
Release : 2015-03-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0804795053

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Though the scientific community largely agrees that climate change is underway, debates about this issue remain fiercely polarized. These conversations have become a rhetorical contest, one where opposing sides try to achieve victory through playing on fear, distrust, and intolerance. At its heart, this split no longer concerns carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, or climate modeling; rather, it is the product of contrasting, deeply entrenched worldviews. This brief examines what causes people to reject or accept the scientific consensus on climate change. Synthesizing evidence from sociology, psychology, and political science, Andrew J. Hoffman lays bare the opposing cultural lenses through which science is interpreted. He then extracts lessons from major cultural shifts in the past to engender a better understanding of the problem and motivate the public to take action. How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate makes a powerful case for a more scientifically literate public, a more socially engaged scientific community, and a more thoughtful mode of public discourse.

Author : Tony Crook
Publisher : de Gruyter Open Poland
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 35,41 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783110591408

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This edited volume examines the opportunities to think, do, and/or create jointly afforded by digital storytelling. The contributors discuss digital storytelling in the context of educational programs, teaching anthropology, and ethnographic researc

Author : Jessica Barnes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,31 MB
Release : 2015-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300213573

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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.

Author : Thorsten Heimann
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 48,83 MB
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 1000625044

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Bringing together scholarly research by climate experts working in different locations and social science disciplines, this book offers insights into how climate change is socially and culturally constructed. Whereas existing studies of climate cultural differences are predominantly rooted in a static understanding of culture, cultural globalization theory suggests that new formations emerge dynamically at different social and spatial scales. This volume gathers analyses of climate cultural formations within various spaces and regions in the United States and the European Union. It focuses particularly on the emergence of new social movements and coalitions devoted to fighting climate change on both sides of the Atlantic. Overall, Climate Cultures in Europe and North America provides empirical and theoretical findings that contribute to current debates on globalization, conflict and governance, as well as cultural and social change. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, environmental policy and politics, environmental sociology, and cultural studies.

Author : Sarah Lanier
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,34 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Communication and culture
ISBN : 9781581582055

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Foreign to Familiar is a splendidly written, well-researched work on cultures. Anyone traveling abroad should not leave home without this valuable resource! I highly recommend it as required reading for cross-cultural workers. Sarah Lanier's love and sensitivity for people of all nations will touch your heart.

Author : Jagdish N. Sheth
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 20,99 MB
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1787434648

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Drawing from decades of research, Genes,Climate, and Consumption Culture: Connecting the Dots demonstrates how climate dictates culture and consumption.

Author : Wolfgang Behringer
Publisher : Polity
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 32,47 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0745645291

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Explores the latest historical research on the development of the earth's climate, showing how even minor changes in the climate could result in major social, political, and religious upheavals.