Climate Change and Anthropos - Linda Connor

Climate Change and Anthropos

Planet, people and places

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
206 Seiten
2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-71853-0 (ISBN)
118,45 inkl. MwSt
Anthropos, in the sense of species as well as cultures and ethics, locates humans as part of much larger orders of existence – fundamental when thinking about climate change. This book offers a new way of exploring the significance of locality and lives in the epoch of the Anthropocene, a time when humans confront the limits of our control over nature. Many scholars now write about the ethics, policies and politics of climate change, focussing on global processes and effects. The book’s innovative approach to cross-cultural comparison and a regionally based study explores people’s experiences of environmental change and the meaning of climate change for diverse human worlds in a changing biosphere.

The main study site is the Hunter Valley in southeast Australia: an ecological region defined by the Hunter River catchment; a dwelling place for many generations of people; and a key location for transnational corporations focussed on the mining, burning and export of black coal. Abundant fossil fuel reserves tie Hunter people and places to the Asia Pacific – the engine room of global economic growth in the twenty-first century and the largest user of the planet’s natural resources. The book analyses the nexus of place and perceptions, political economy and social organisation in situations where environmental changes are radically transforming collective worlds.

Based on an anthropological approach informed by other ways of thinking about environment-people relationships, this book analyses the social and cultural dimensions of climate change holistically. Each chapter links the large scales of species and planet with small places, commodity chains, local actions, myths and values, as well as the mingled strands of dystopian imaginings and strivings for recuperative renewal in an era of transition.

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

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

Reihe/Serie Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
Zusatzinfo 27 Halftones, black and white; 30 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 476 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Technik Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
Wirtschaft
Weitere Fachgebiete Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10 0-415-71853-8 / 0415718538
ISBN-13 978-0-415-71853-0 / 9780415718530
Zustand Neuware
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