Living with Environmental Change (eBook, ePUB)

Waterworlds
Redaktion: Hastrup, Kirsten; Rubow, Cecilie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Climate change is a lived experience of changes in the environment, often destroying conventional forms of subsistence and production, creating new patterns of movement and connection, and transforming people's imagined future.This book explores how people across the world think about environmental change and how they act upon the perception of past, present and future opportunities. Drawing on the ethnographic fieldwork of expert authors, it sheds new light on the human experience of and social response to climate change by taking us from the Arctic to the Pacific, from the Southeast Indian Coastal zone to the West-African dry-lands and deserts, as well as to Peruvian mountain communities and cities.Divided into four thematic parts - Water, Landscape, Technology, Time - this book uses rich photographic material to accompany the short texts and reflections in order to bring to life the human ingenuity and social responsibility of people in the face of new uncertainties. In an era of melting glaciers, drying lands, and rising seas, it shows how it is part and parcel of human life to take responsibility for the social community and take creative action on the basis of a localized understanding of the environment.This highly original contribution to the anthropological study of climate change is a must-read for all those wanting to understand better what climate change means on the ground and interested in a sustainable future for the Earth.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317753612
• Artikelnr.: 40807784

Autorenporträt

Kirsten Hastrup is Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Cecilie Rubow is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Portraits Part 1 Water 1. Introduction Kirsten Hastrup 2.
Narwhals and Navigators on the Arctic Sea Kirsten Hastrup 3. Ephemeral
Tsunamis, Emotional Waves, and Enduring Islands Maria Louise B. Robertson
4. Sea Water to the Mountain Top: The Hydrological Cycle in Chivay, Peru
Astrid B. Stensrud 5. Bursting Bodies of Water Mattias B. Rasmussen 6. When
it Rains and the River Grows Astrid O. Andersen 7. The Elusive Pleasure of
Rain in the Sahel Jonas Ø. Nielsen 8. Dams: Management versus Luck Mette F.
Olwig 9. Water as Power and Destroyer Frank Sejersen 10. New Opportunities
turning into Disaster Anette Reenberg 11. Coastal Gardens and their Magic
Frida Hastrup 11. The Sprawled Way of Detergents Cecilie Rubow 12.
Droughts: Complex Social Phenomena Christian Vium 13. Water Quantity vs.
Water Quality Laura V. Rasmussen 14. Fixed and Fluid Waters: Mirroring the
Arctic and the Pacific Kirsten Hastrup and Maria Louise B. Robertson Part
2. Technology 15. Introduction Cecilie Rubow 16. Sea Level and Coastal
Protection Cecilie Rubow 17. Urbanizing Water in a Context of Scarcity
Christian Vium 18. A Job-Machine Powered by Water Frank Sejersen 19. Life
in the Shadow of a Water Tower Astrid O. Andersen 20. Waste and Water -
Connected and Mixed Maria Louise B. Robertson 21. Inverted Watering
Strategies in Senegal Anette Reenberg 22. Cobs as Technological Solutions
Mette F. Olwig 23. The Imagined Water Pump Jonas Ø. Nielsen 24.
Unpredictable Side Effects of New Technologies Laura V. Rasmussen 25.
Scalable and Fluid Sprinklers Astrid B. Stensrud 26. Dry Technologies and
Community Bureaucracies Mattias B. Rasmussen 27. A Life Jacket Story Frida
Hastrup 28. Unpacking the Dog Sledge Kirsten Hastrup 29. Water
Technologies. Mirroring Great Expectations in Greenland and Ghana Mette F.
Olwig and Frank Sejersen Part 3. Landscape 30. Introduction Kirsten Hastrup
31. Hualca Hualca: Mountain Lord and Life Source Astrid B. Stensrud 32.
Knowing Landscapes of Water in Kiribati Maria Louise B. Robertson 33.
Borders at sea Frida Hastrup 34. Making Urban Landscapes - People, Water,
Materials Astrid O. Andersen 35. Dreams, Water and the Remodelling of Place
Frank Sejersen 36. Strategic Thinking: Changeable Usages of the Nigerien
Landscape Anette Reenberg 37. Landscapes of Droughts and Floods on the
Desert Margins Laura V. Rasmussen 38. A Landscape of Ice - Kirsten Hastrup
39. Walking Along Water Mattias B. Rasmussen 39. Old Water, Gardens and
Prophetic Powers in the Sahel Jonas Ø. Nielsen 40. Can You See Climate
Change in a Changing Environment? Cecilie Rubow 41. Mental Topographies
Mette F. Olwig 42. Nomadic Landscapes and Ephemeral Resources - Christian
Vium 43. Icons of Climate Change. Mirroring the Sahel and the Andes Astrid
O. Andersen/Jonas Ø. Nielsen Part 4. Time 44. Introduction Cecilie Rubow
45. Glacial Time Kirsten Hastrup 46. Seasons, Timings, and the Rhythms of
Life Mattias B. Rasmussen 47. Flexible Trajectories: Nomadic Pastoral
Mobility Patterns Christian Vium 48. Still Life on the Shore Frida Hastrup
49. Appraising Change: A Question of Baseline Anette Reenberg 50. Litres
per Second: Measuring the Water Flow Astrid B. Stensrud 51. New Scenarios
and Unstable Temporalities Cecilie Rubow 52. Facing Reality -
Managing/Imagining the Time Left on an Atoll Maria Louise B. Robertson 53.
Anticipating Futures and the Rhythms of Water - Frank Sejersen 54. Slow
versus Fast Changes in Sahelian Land Use Systems Laura V. Rasmussen 55.
Three Calendars and the Test of Time in Northern Sahel Jonas Ø. Nielsen
56. "Packages" with Disparate Time Horizons Mette F. Olwig 57. Urban Talks
of Climate and Weather Astrid O. Andersen 58. Times of Climate Change in
Religion and Ethics. Mirroring the Andes and the Pacific Cecilie Rubow and
Mattias B. Rasmussen