Climate Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives on Climate Change (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300198812)

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: Jessica Barnes
ISBN-10: 0300198817
ISBN-13: 9780300198812
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2015
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2016