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Environmental Change and the World's Futures - Ecologies, ontologies and mythologies (Hardcover)
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Environmental Change and the World's Futures - Ecologies, ontologies and mythologies (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
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The futures discussed in this book primarily arise from awareness
of the potentially disruptive impact of climate change and
ecological instability on human societies. Part of the paradox of
cultural, social and ethical life in all societies is that it is
directed towards a future that can never be observed, and never be
directly acted upon, and yet is always interacting with us. As a
result actions depend on imagination and political action.
Future-loaded terms like 'anthropogenic climate change', 'food
security', 'sustainability', 'energy security', and 'biodiversity'
evoke a specific politics that privileges scientific or economic
knowledge, while potentially suppressing the contestations within,
and between, those knowledges. Remedies like carbon taxes, carbon
trading, renewable energy and nature conservation risk obscuring
forms of social and cultural difference in favour of the proposed
moral unity of 'global humanity' on a threatened planet. These are
'holistic' projects that suppress parts of the world, or particular
social dynamics, in favour of others.By contrast, this book's
framework embraces an appreciation of difference and non-holism, as
it is unlikely that one solution to the many disruptive futures
perceived throughout the world can be found. Indeed any such 'one
solution' may increase the disruptive effects found in local
situations. Each chapter invites reflection on diverse ways of
comprehending global warming and other manifestations of major
environmental change, as well as on the forms, and shapers, of
agency that influence people's understanding and response. In order
to encourage the appreciation of the different future worlds either
imagined and emergent in the present, the scope of the chapters
extends beyond the usual geopolitical focus on the North Atlantic
world, to encompass Nepal, islands in the Pacific, Sweden, coastal
Scotland and remote, regional and urban Australia. The book is
uniquely informed by empirically based and multidisciplinary social
science modes of inquiry, together with a broad-ranging examination
of the 'futures' based discourse, policy and politics that have
become an intrinsic part of the contemporary world.It will appeal
to researchers and postgraduate students in environmental
anthropology, environmental studies, psychology and politics.
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