The anthroposcene of weather and climate : : ethnographic contributions to the climate change debate / / Paul Sillitoe.

"While it is widely acknowledged that climate change is among the greatest global challenges of our times, it has local implications too. This volume forefronts these local issues, giving anthropology a voice in this great debate, which is otherwise dominated by natural scientists and policy ma...

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Place / Publishing House:New York : : Berghahn Books,, [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 339 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : introducing the anthroposcene of weather and climate / Paul Sillitoe
  • There's something in the air, but what? : on Amazon people's perception of atmospheric phenomena / Dan Rosengren
  • Climate change, weather and perception : fishing in eastern Patagonia / Francesca Marin
  • Indigenous responses to climate change in extreme environments : the cases of the Q'eros (Peruvian Andes) and the Gwich'in (Alaska) / Nastassja Martin and Geremia Cometti
  • Fornicating frogs : local knowledge of climate change in Bangladesh? / Paul Sillitoe and Mahbub Alam
  • Weather, agency and values at work in a glacier ski resort in Austria / Herta Nöbauer
  • The moral climate of melting glaciers : Andean claims for justice at the Paris Climate Change Summit / Noah Walker-Crawford
  • From climate knowledge to decision making user interface : making sense of climate science / Maria Ines Carabajal and Cecilia Hidalgo
  • Practising anthropology by providing climate services for farmers : the case of science field shops in Indonesia / Yunita T. Winarto
  • Governmental climate change Agencies and policies in Nepal / Pasang Yangjee Sherpa
  • Down to air : Palestinian memories and practices of weather relatedness / Mauro Van Aken
  • Imagining nations and producing climate change knowledge in Brazil / André S. Bailão
  • Embanking the sundarbans : the obfuscating discourse of climate change / Camelia Dewan
  • Afterword / David Shankland.