Climate Change and Anthropos - Planet, People and Places

This book offers a new way of thinking about the significance of locality and everyday life in relation to climate change. Many scholars now write about the ethics, policies and politics of climate change, focusing on global processes and effects. The book's innovative approach to cross-cultural comparison and a regionally based ethnographic study moves beyond the political assertions and expert understandings filtered by the mass media. Rather, it asks fundamental questions about the social impact and cultural meanings of global warming and its impact on diverse human worlds embedded in a changing biosphere.

List of contents

Part 1: The Ecocosmic Sphere 1. Precarious places in a warming world 2. Life and time in a carboniferous zone Part 2: Quotidian Worlds 3. Being in the weather 4. Living environmental change Part 3: Counterpoints 5. Climate Activation 6. Fragile futurity

About the author

Linda H. Connor is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Product details

• Authors: Linda Connor, Connor Linda
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.02.2016
• EAN: 9780415718530
• ISBN: 978-0-415-71853-0
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, Cultural Studies, Climate Change, NATURE / Ecology, Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, Anthropology, Psychology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Politics & government, Biodiversity, Environmental Economics, environmental science, engineering & technology, Communication Studies, Regional Studies, Conservation of the environment, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, Agricultural science, Environmental policy & protocols, Human Geography, Development Studies, Environment law, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Environmental policy and protocols