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Grounding Global Climate Change - Contributions from the Social and Cultural Sciences (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
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Grounding Global Climate Change - Contributions from the Social and Cultural Sciences (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
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This book traces the evolution of climate change research, which,
long dominated by the natural sciences, now sees greater
involvement with disciplines studying the socio-cultural
implications of change. In their introduction, the editors chart
the changing role of the social and cultural sciences, delineating
three strands of research: socio-critical approaches which connect
climate change to a call for cultural or systemic change; a
mitigation and adaption strand which takes the physical reality of
climate change as a starting point, and focuses on the concerns of
climate change-affected communities and their participation in
political action; and finally, culture-sensitive research which
places emphasis on indigenous peoples, who contribute the least to
the causes of climate change, who are affected most by its
consequences, and who have the least leverage to influence a
solution. Part I of the book explores interdisciplinarity, climate
research and the role of the social sciences, including the concept
of ecological novelty, an assessment of progress since the first
Rio climate conference, and a 'global village' case study from
Portugal. Part II surveys ethnographic perspectives in the search
for social facts of global climate change, including climate and
mobility in the West African Sahel, and human-non human
interactions and climate change in the Canadian Subarctic. Part III
shows how collaborative and comparative ethnographies can spin
"global webs of local knowledge," describing case studies of
changing seasonality in Labrador and of rising water levels in the
Chesapeake Bay. These perspectives are subjected to often-amusing,
always incisive analysis in a concluding chapter entitled "You
Ain't Seen Nothing Yet: a death-defying look at the future of the
climate debate." The contributors engage critically with the
research subject of 'climate change' itself, reflecting on their
own practices of knowledge production and epistemological
presuppositions. Finely detailed and sympathetic to a broad range
of viewpoints, the book sets out a profile for the social sciences
and humanities in the climate change field by systematically
exploring methodological and theoretical challenges and approaches.
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