Anthropology and Climate Change From Transformations to Worldmaking

Introduction: from transformations to worldmaking

1. The arc of the Anthropocene: deep-time perspectives from environmental archaeology

Arlene Miller Rosen

2. Re-fielding climate change in cultural anthropology

Meredith Welch-Devine and Heather Lazrus

3. A picaresque critique: the anthropology of disasters and displacement in the era of global warming and pandemics

A.J. Faas

4. Understanding Arctic melt: reflections on collaborative interdisciplinary research

Mark Nuttall

5. ‘Knowing’ climate: engaging vernacular narratives of change

Susan A. Crate

 

Part II Worldmaking Practices

6. "Don’t look down": green technologies, climate change, and mining

Jerry K. Jacka

7. Getting it right: What needs to be done to ensure First Nations’ participation and benefit from large-scale renewable energy developments on Country?

Katie Quail, Donna Green and Ciaran O’Faircheallaigh

8. Whither the winds of change? Worldmaking winds and seasonal disruptions in the northern Chilean Andes

Penelope Dransart and Marietta Ortega Perrier

9. The water obliges: climate change and worldmaking practices in Peru

Astrid B. Stensrud

10. Climate action with a lagniappe: coastal restoration, flood risk reduction, sacred site protection and Tribal communities' resilience

Julie Maldonado, Kristina Peterson, R. Eugene Turner, Theresa Dardar, Shirell Parfait-Dardar, Rosina Philippe, Donald Dardar, Alessandra Jerolleman, Julie Torres, Rebecca Lovingood and Mira Olson

11. Climate change as colonial echo in the Canadian Arctic

Franz Krause

12. On new ground: tracing human-muskox reconfigurations in Greenland

Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen and Janne Flora

13. The disappearing free reindeer: unexpected consequences of climate change for Fennoscandian reindeer herding

Majken Paulsen, Grete K. Hovelsrud and Camilla Risvoll

14. Sakha and alaas: place attachment and cultural identity in a time of climate change

Susan A. Crate

15. A reflexive approach to climate change engagement with Sherpas from Khumbu and Pharak in

northeastern Nepal (Mount Everest Region)

Pasang Yangjee Sherpa and Ornella Puschiasis

 

Part III Interventions

16. Why we need to pay attention to wealth and inequality in lowering carbon emissions

Beatriz Barros and Richard Wilk

17. Decarbonization and making the energy future in the Welsh underlands

Mark Nuttall

18. Representation and luck: reflections on climate and collaboration in Shishmaref, Alaska

Dennis Davis and Elizabeth Marino

19. Agricultural intensification in Northern Burkina Faso: smallholder adaptation to climate change

Colin Thor West and Carla Roncoli

20. Anthropological contributions to IPCC assessment work

Pamela McElwee

21. Negotiating science and policy in international climate assessments

Jessica O’Reilly

22. From "lone ranger" to team player: the role of anthropology in training a new generation of climate adaptation professionals

Sarah Strauss and Courtney Kurlanska

23. Climate counter-hegemony: crafting an anthropological climate politics through student-faculty collaborations in the classroom and on the streets

Brian J. Burke, Sydney Blume and Michael Z. Weiss

24. Caiyugluku: pulling from within to meet the challenges in a rapidly changing Arctic

Fred Phillip, Raychelle Aluaq Daniel, Jonella Ququngaq Larson, Anne Stevens Henshaw and Erin Dougherty Lynch

25. Culture and heritage in climate conversations: reflections on connecting culture, heritage and climate change

Epilogue

Index

Biography

Susan A. Crate is an environmental and cognitive anthropologist and Professor Emeritus of George Mason University, USA.

Mark Nuttall is Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair of Anthropology at the University of Alberta, Canada. He is also Adjunct Professor at Ilisimatusarfik/University of Greenland and the Greenland Climate Research Centre in Nuuk, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

"This third edition of Anthropology and Climate Change is an excellent assemblage of articles and case studies exploring the reorientations required for fully capturing the multiple and complexly intertwined challenges of climate change, the need to reconfigure through a process of world-making different ways (worlds) of envisioning how we relate to one another and to our environments, and finally, the problems and pitfalls that occur when global policy fails to recognize local capacities and vulnerabilities. Challenging the neoliberal logic that negates the possibility of other possible futures, essentially construing neoliberal capitalism as some ultimate stage of human evolution (Baschet 2003), the authors assert that anthropology thus must tap into the full array of resources, past, contemporary and imagined, for guides for creating alternative futures beyond the current relentless construction of risk. Framing the focus of the third edition with the subtitle "From Transformations to World-Making," Crate and Nuttall and the various authors contend that if climate change doesn't move us toward imagining other worlds (ways) than current neoliberal approaches, we never will, and the consequences will be catastrophic. The third edition of Anthropology and Climate Change moves that discussion significantly forward."

Anthony Oliver-Smith, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Florida