Aase J. Kvanneid

Perceptions of Climate Change from North India (eBook, PDF)

An Ethnographic Account

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores local perceptions of climate change through ethnographic encounters with the men and women who live at the front line of climate change in the lower Himalayas.

It will be of great interest to students and scholars of the anthropology of climate change, environmental sociology and rural development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000359022
• Artikelnr.: 60931351

Autorenporträt

Aase J. Kvanneid is an anthropologist currently working as an associate professor of Global Development Studies at the University of Agder and as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Oslo. Her main areas of research are the societal aspects of environmental and climate change, and she is currently researching the empirical embeddedness of sustainability and transcendental visions in Asia.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue Introduction Climate Change in India A Scientifically Social Climate Change Writing Climate Change A Note on Methodology A Choice of Words and How They Flow References Endnotes Chapter 1: Climate Change Expressions Social Principles of Differentiation in Rani M
jri Class in Rani M
jri Caste in Rani M
jri Gender in Rani M
jri References Endnotes Chapter 2: Waterworn Becoming Rani M
jri: A Kuhl Story Time Beyond Living Memory Time Remembered Contemporary Rani M
jri Water-rights Unirrigated Development References Endnotes Chapter 3: Governing Awareness On Global-Local Gaps and Frictions Junctions Junction 1: Governing Bodies Junction 2: Governing Forest Junction 3: Governing Soil and Water Development Trajectories A History of Management Disconnected Development References Endnotes Chapter 4: Divine Jurisdictions Deciduous Land Management Settled Deities Placeless Beings Auspicious Placemaking Negotiating Village Territories References Endnotes Chapter 5 Climate Identities Being Climate Change Aware Life in the "Greenery" Deprived of Science, Bestowed with Eco-Sensitivity? Climate Change as a Discourse References Endnotes Chapter 6: A Dance of Global Warming Environmental Retribution for the 'Wrong' Progress On Reductionism and Disempowerment Concluding Remarks References Endnotes