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

Climate Cultures Reviews

"A brilliant overview of this emerging area of study. Barnes and Dove have provided an accessible volume that will shape the social study of climate and climate change from here on."-Jesse Ribot, University of Illinois -- Jesse Ribot
"Climate Cultures offers major insights, makes significant contributions, and illustrates the impressive scope of current anthropological perspectives applied to understanding climate change in new and original ways. It is extremely important scholarship."-Karl Zimmerer, Pennsylvania State University -- Karl Zimmerer
"From the meetings of the IPCC to the perambulations of herders in India, these essays do the crucial work of mapping the origins and impacts of circulating, global, and power-laden climate change cultures."-Paul Robbins, author of Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction -- Paul Robbins
"[A] timely, thorough, well-written collection."-Choice * Choice *

About Jessica Barnes

Jessica Barnes is assistant professor, Department of Geography and Environment and Sustainability Program, University of South Carolina. She lives in Columbia, SC. Michael Dove is Margaret K. Musser Professor of Social Ecology and Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. He lives in Killingworth, CT.

Additional information

Sku

CIN0300198817VG

ISBN 13

9780300198812

ISBN 10

0300198817

Title

Climate Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives on Climate Change by Jessica Barnes

Author

Jessica Barnes

Series

Yale Agrarian Studies (YUP)

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Yale University Press

Year published

2015-08-04

Number of pages

328

Prizes

N/A

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Note

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