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Climate Change and Tradition in a Small Island State - The Rising Tide (Hardcover, New)
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Climate Change and Tradition in a Small Island State - The Rising Tide (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology
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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, Marshall Islanders have instead embraced it;
with reasons to forswear guilt and responsibility, they have
instead adopted in-group blame; and having been instructed that
resettlement is necessary, they have vowed instead to retain the
homeland. These dominant local responses can be understood as
arising from a pre-existing, vigorous constellation of Marshallese
ideas termed "modernity the trickster": a historically inspired
narrative of self-inflicted cultural decline and seduction by
Euro-American modernity. This study illuminates islander agency at
the intersection of the local and the global, and suggests a theory
of risk perception based on ideological commitment to narratives of
historical progress and decline.
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