1st Edition
Climate Change and Tradition in a Small Island State The Rising Tide
By Peter Rudiak-Gould
Copyright 2013
244 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
244 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
244 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The citizens of the Marshall Islands have been told that climate change will doom their country, and they have seen confirmatory omens in the land, air, and sea. This book investigates how grassroots Marshallese society has interpreted and responded to this threat as intimated by local observation, science communication, and Biblical exegesis. With grounds to dismiss or ignore the threat,... Read more
Introduction: A Scientific Prophecy 1. Modernity the Trickster: From First Contact to the Postcolonial State 2. Climate Change Dawns On Marshall Islanders 3. Pervasive Decline and the Eminent Believability of Climate Change 4. Seductive Modernity, In-Group Blame, and the Mitigation Movement 5. Modernity’s Second Coming: The Unsettling Issue of Resettlement. Conclusion: Making Sense of Climate Change.
Biography
Peter Rudiak-Gould is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University.
"This is a rich book and it should be read by all who are concerned by, write about or teach matters connected with climate change, the Pacific and indigenous studies. The work is entertaining, beautifully presented and challenging in many ways." - Jenny Bryant-Tokalau, University of Otago.
