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Pacific Climate Cultures - Living Climate Change in Oceania (Hardcover)
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Pacific Climate Cultures - Living Climate Change in Oceania (Hardcover)
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Low-lying Pacific island nations are experiencing the frontline of
sea-level rises and climate change and are responding creatively
and making-sense in their own vernacular terms. Pacific Climate
Cultures aims to bring Oceanic philosophies to the frontline of
social science theorization. It explores the home-grown ways that
'climate change' becomes absorbed into the combined effects of
globalization and into a living nexus of relations amongst human
and non-humans, spirits and elements. Contributors to this edited
volume explore diverse examples of living climate change-from
floods and cyclones, through song and navigation, to new forms of
art, community initiatives and cultural appropriations-and
demonstrate their international relevance in understanding climate
change. A Prelude by His Highness Tui Atua Efi and Afterword by
Anne Salmond frame an Introduction by Tony Crook & Peter
Rudiak-Gould and nine chapters by contributors including John
Connell, Elfriede Hermann & Wolfgang Kempf and Cecilie Rubow.
Endorsement from Professor Margaret Jolly, Australian National
University: This exciting volume offers innovative insights on
climate cultures across Oceania. It critically interrogates Western
environmental sciences which fail to fully appreciate Oceanic
knowledges and practices. It reveals how climate science can be
both 'a weapon of the weak' and 'an act of symbolic violence of the
powerful'. A compelling series of studies in the Cook islands,
Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea and Samoa suggest not diverse
cultural constructions of 'natural facts' but processes of
knowledge exchange and at best a respectful reciprocity in
confronting present challenges and disturbing future scenarios.
'Home-grown' Pacific discourses and ways of living emphasise the
interconnections of all life on earth and in our cosmos; they do
not differentiate between the natural and the moral, between
environmental and cultural transformations. These studies evoke the
creative agency of Oceanic peoples, too often seen as on the
vanguard of victimhood in global representations of climate change,
and offer distinctive visions for all humanity in these troubling
times.
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