1st Edition

Building the Critical Anthropology of Climate Change Towards a Socio-Ecological Revolution

By Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer Copyright 2025
296 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book applies a critical perspective to anthropogenic climate change and the global socio-ecological crisis. The book focuses on the critical anthropology of climate change by opening up a dialogue with the two main contending perspectives in the field, namely the cultural ecological and the cultural interpretive perspectives. Guided by these, the authors take a firm stance on the types of... Read more

Introduction

1. Climate Change, Climate Science, and Anthropology

2. Conflicting Anthropological Perspectives: Cultural Ecological/Ecological Anthropological, Cultural Interpretive, and Critical Anthropology Perspectives of Climate Change

3. Anthropocene, Capitalocene, or Whatever? Rethinking Our Era of Climate Change Production

4. Social Inequality and Climate Change

5. Planetary Health: A Critical Health Anthropological Perspective

6. Toward a Critical Anthropology of Climate Refugees

7. Can Ecological Modernization Contain Climate Change? How the Rich and Powerful Seek to Address the Ecological Crisis

8. The Scholarly Elephant in the Sky: How Can Anthropologists and Other Scholars Grapple with their Heavy Reliance on Flying in the Era of Climate Crisis?

9. Two Genres of the Climate Movement: Climate Action vs. Climate Justice

10. Towards a Critical Anthropology of the Future: Climate Change and Future Scenarios

11. Eco-Socialism as the Ultimate Climate Change Mitigation Strategy

Epilogue

Biography

Hans A. Baer is Principal Honorary Research Fellow, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Merrill Singer is Professor Emeritus in Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut, USA.