Climate Change Epistemologies in Southern Africa

Jörn Ahrens is Professor of Cultural Sociology at Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU), Germany, and Extraordinary Professor of Social Anthropology at North-West University (NWU), South Africa. Ernst Halbmayer is Professor for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Marburg, Germany, where he is also Director of the Marburg Ethnographic Collection.

Jörn Ahrens, Ernst Halbmayer: Introduction: epistemologies of global warming in the South. The social and cultural dimension of climate change in Southern Africa

Part 1: Climate and climate change – justice epistemologies






Michael Bollig: Drought, disaster and identity in northwestern Namibia in times of global climate change



Michael Sheridan: When rain is a person: rainmaking, relational persons, and post-human ontologies in sub-Saharan Africa



Werner Nell: Environmental attitudes and narratives in two rural South African communities: implications for intervention



Patrick Bond, Mary Galvin: Conflicting narratives of extreme weather events in Durban, South Africa: politically opportunistic, experiential and climate-justice epistemologies in an extreme weather event


Part 2: Climate change communication




Anna Taylor, Dianne Scott: receptivity to the knowledge of others: building urban climate resilience in southern African cities



Gabriel Faimau, Esther Nkhukhu-Orlando, Nelson Sello: Print media coverage and the socio-contextual Representation of climate change in Botswana"
Part 3: Just Transition and international co-operation




Steve Vanderheiden: Climate change equity and extreme vulnerability



Matthias Rompel: Adaptation to climate change in Southern Africa: challenges for sustainable development, and the role of International co-operation