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Overview
‘Climate’ is an old idea, but an idea which retains tremendous power, versatility and utility in today’s world. For the Ancient Greeks, climate worked both as index and as agency , and this dual function has recurred throughout human cultural history and it works too in contemporary discourses about climate change. Climates change physically, but climates can also change ideologically. What climate means to different people in different places in different eras is not stable. If culture is concerned with how human meaning, symbolism and practice take on substantive and material forms, then studying climate through culture is likely to be a fruitful activity.
This Major Work is a valuable synopsis of a diffuse discourse and captures some of the most important writing on climate and culture that has appeared since the 1980s. It provides a structure within which the recently growing body of work in human geography, anthropology, sociology and religious studies can be placed.
Volume One: Theorising Climate and Culture
Volume Two: The Agencies of Climate
Volume Three: Reading Climate and Culture in the Past
Volume Four: Reading Climate and Culture in the Future
Volume Five: Climate and Culture in Places
Volume Six: Cultural Representations of Climate
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781473904521 |
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Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Publication date: | 07/24/2015 |
Series: | SAGE Library of the Environment |
Edition description: | Six-Volume Set |
Pages: | 1888 |
Product dimensions: | 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Mike Hulme is professor of climate and culture in the Department of Geography at King’s College London. His work sits at the intersection of climate, history and culture. He studies how knowledge about climate and its changes is made and represented and analyses the numerous ways in which the idea of climate-change is deployed in public discourse around the world. His previous books include Can Science Fix Climate Change? A Case Against Climate Engineering (Polity, 2014), Exploring Climate Change Through Science and In Society (Routledge, 2013) and Why We Disagree About Climate Change (Cambridge, 2009). This latter book was chosen by The Economist magazine as one of its science and technology books of the year. From 2000 to 2007 he was the Founding Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, based at the University of East Anglia, and since 2007 has been the founding Editor-in-Chief of the review journal Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs) Climate Change. He is currently Head of Department.
Table of Contents
VOLUME ONE: CULTURES OF CLIMATE KNOWLEDGEThe Classification of Climates from Pythagoras to Koeppen - Marie SandersonThe Definition of the Standard WMO Climate Normal - Antony Arguez and Russell VoseLinguistic Dimensions of Weather and Climate Perception - Alan StewartMeteorological Knowledge and Environmental Ideas in Traditional and Modern Societies: The Case of Tibet - Toni Huber and Poul PedersenGlaciers and Climate Change: Perspectives from Oral Tradition - Julie CruikshankThe Anxieties of a Science Diplomat: Field Coproduction of Climate Knowledge and the Rise and Fall of Hans Ahlman’s ‘Polar Warming’ - Sverker SörlinRepresenting the Global Atmosphere: Computer Models, Data and Knowledge about Climate Change - Paul EdwardsVerification, Validation and Confirmation of Numerical Models in the Earth Sciences - Naomi Oreskes, Kristin Shrader-Frechette and Kenneth BelitzAnticipating Nature: The Productive Uncertainty of Climate Models - Kirsten HastrupThe Global Warming of Climate Science: Climategate and the Construction of Scientific Facts - Marianne Ryghaug and Tomas SkjølsvoldAnatomy of Dissent: A Cultural Analysis of Climate Skepticism - Myanna LahsenSila Dialogues on Climate Change: Inuit Wisdom for a Cross-Cultural Interdisciplinarity - Timothy LeducIndigenous Climate Knowledge in Southern Uganda: The Multiple Components of a Dynamic Regional System - Ben Orlove, Carla Roncoli, Merit Kabugo and Abushen MajiguCulture, Law, Risk and Governance: Contexts of Traditional Knowledge in Climate Change Adaptation - Terry Williams and Preston Hardison‘We Have Seen It with Our Own Eyes’: Why We Disagree about Climate Change Visibility - Peter Rudiak-GouldVOLUME TWO: HISTORICAL READINGS OF CLIMATEChinese Attitudes towards Climate - Cho-yun HsuThe Meteorological Framework and the Cultural Memory of Three Severe Winter-Storms in Early Eighteenth Century Europe - Christian Pfister, Emmanuel Garnier, Maria-João Alcoforado, Dennis Wheeler, Jürg Luterbacher, Maria Nunes and João TabordaTime, Talk and the Weather in Eighteenth-Century Britain - Jan GolinskiClimates as Commodities: Jean Pierre Purry and the Modelling of the Best Climate on Earth - Vladimir JankovicInventing Caribbean Climates: How Science, Medicine, and Tourism Changed Tropical Weather from Deadly to Healthy - Mark CareySeeing Climate through Culture - Lawrence CulverPerceiving, Explaining and Observing Climatic Changes: An Historical Case Study of the ‘Year without Summer’ 1816 - Tom Bodenmann, Stefan Brönnimann, Gertrude Hadorn, Tobias Krüger and Helmut Weissert‘The Languor of the Hot Weather’: Everyday Perspectives on Weather and Climate in Colonial Bombay, 1819–1828 - George AdamsonDrought, Desiccation and Discourse: Missionary Correspondence and Nineteenth-Century Climate Change in Central Southern Africa - Georgina Endfield and David NashTropical Climate and Moral Hygiene: The Anatomy of a Victorian Debate - David LivingstoneThe Perfectionists and the Weather: The Oneida Community’s Quest for Meteorological Utopia 1848–1879 - William MeyerModernity’s Frail Climate: A Climate History of Environmental Reflexivity - Fabien Locher and Jean-Baptiste FressozThe Debate over Climate Change in the Steppe Region in Nineteenth-Century Russia - David MoonIs Global Culture Warming Up? - Andrew RossVOLUME THREE: CLIMATE AND AGENCYChange in the Weather - Vladimir JankovicDomain of the Gods: An Editorial Essay - Simon DonnerClimatic Change and Witch-Hunting: The Impact of the Little Ice Age on Mentalities - Wolfgang BehringerAn Amazing and Portentous Summer: Environmental and Social Responses in Britain to the 1783 Eruption of an Iceland Volcano - John Grattan and Mark BrayshayThe Climate Engineers - James FlemingHuntington and Lovelock: Climatic Determinism in the 20th Century - Kent Mc GregorClimate, Race Science and the Age of Consent in the League of Nations - Ashwini TambeHuman Agency, Climate Change and Culture: An Archaeological Perspective - Fekri HassanHuman Adaptation to Climate Change: A Review of Three Historical Cases and Some General Perspectives - Ben OrloveTemporality and the Problem with Singling Out Climate as a Current Driver of Change in a Small West African Village - Jonas Nielsen and Anette ReenbergClimate Change and Conflict - Ragnhild Nordås and Nils Petter GleditschThe First Climate Refugees? Contesting Global Narratives of Climate Change in Tuvalu - Carol Farbotko and Heather LazrusAre Cultures Endangered by Climate Change? Yes, But ... - Sarah StraussTrust and Climate - Nico StehrVOLUME FOUR: CLIMATE AND CULTURE IN PLACES AND PRACTICESA New Climate for Society - Sheila JasanoffEarth, Sky, Wind, and Weather - Tim IngoldMaking Sense of the Weather: Dwelling and Weathering on Canada’s Rain Coast - Phillip Vannini, Dennis Waskul, Simon Gottschalk and Toby Ellis-NewsteadEmotional Climates: Ritual, Seasonality and Affective Disorders - Simon HarrisonSeasonal Climate Change and the Indoor City Worker - Russell HitchingsWhy Indoor Climates Change: A Case Study - William MeyerReculturing and Particularising Climate Discourses: Weather, Identity and the Work of Gordon Manley - Georgina EndfieldClimate and Culture Connections in Australia - Neville NichollsAn Australian Feeling for Snow: Towards Understanding Cultural and Emotional Dimensions of Climate Change - Andrew Gorman-MurrayWhether Rain or Shine: Weather Regimes from a New Guinea Perspective - Paul SillitoeSeasons in the Sun – Weather and Climate Front-Page News Stories in Europe’s Rainiest City, Bergen, Norway - Elisabeth Meze-HauskenLocalizing Climate Change: A Multi-Sited Approach - Werner KraussProgress, Decline and the Public Uptake of Climate Science - Peter Rudiak-GouldBare Rocks and Fallen Angels: Environmental Change, Climate Perceptions and Ritual Practice in the Peruvian Andes - Karsten PaerregaardHuman Geographies of Climate Change: Landscape, Temporality, and Lay Knowledges - Catherine Brace and Hilary GeogheganVOLUME FIVE: CULTURAL READINGS OF FUTURE CLIMATEImproving Forecast Communication: Linguistic and Cultural Considerations - Karen Pennesi“People Want to Protect Themselves a Little Bit”: Emotions, Denial and Social Movement Nonparticipation - Kari NorgaardCommodifying the Atmosphere: ‘Pennies from Heaven’? - John Thornes and Samuel RandallsThe Right to Keep Cold - Neil AdgerThe End of Model Democracy? An Editorial Comment - Reto KnuttiDemocracy, Climate Change and Global Governance: Democratic Agency and the Policy Menu Ahead - David Held and Angus HerveyTipping Points and the Human World: Living with Change and Thinking about the Future - Mark NuttallGoogle Warming: Google Earth as Eco-Machinima - Leon GurevitchThe Flood Myth in the Age of Global Climate Change - Michael Salvador and Todd NortonClimate Change and Apocalyptic Faith - Stefan SkrimshireThe Unbearable Lightness of Green: Air Travel, Climate Change and Literature - Greg GarrardReading and Writing the Weather: Climate Technics and the Moment of Responsibility - Bronislaw SzerszynskiMetaphors We Die By? Geoengineering, Metaphors and the Argument from Catastrophe - Brigitte Nerlich and Rusi JaspalGeoengineering, Theology and the Meaning of Being Human - Forrest ClingermanReducing the Future to Climate: A Story of Climate Determinism and Reductionism - Mike HulmeVOLUME SIX: CLIMATE CHANGE IN LITERARY, VISUAL AND PERFORMANCE CULTURESA Change in the Climate: New Interpretations and Perceptions of Climate Change through Artistic Interventions and Representations - Lesley DuxburyArts, Sciences and Climate Change: Practices and Politics at the Threshold - Jennifer Gabrys and Kathryn Yusoff‘Telling a Different Tale’: Literary, Historical and Meteorological Reading of a Norfolk Heatwave - Mike HulmePicturing Climate Change - Stefan BrönnimannPicturing the Clima(c)tic: Greenpeace and the Representational Politics of Climate Change Communication - Julie DoyleSeeing Climate Change: The Visual Construction of Global Warming in Canadian National Print Media - Darryn Di Francesco and Nathan YoungImaging Vulnerability: The Iconography of Climate Change - Kate ManzoClimate Change in Literature and Literary Criticism - Adam Trexler and Adeline Johns-PutraSolar: Apocalypse Not - Greg GarrardMelting Ice and the Paradoxes of Zeno: Didactic Impulses and Aesthetic Distanciation in German Climate Change Fiction - Axel GoodbodyCultural Climatology and the Representation of Sky, Atmosphere, Weather and Climate in Selected Art Works of Constable, Monet and Eliasson - John Thornes“There’s a Storm Coming!”: Reading the Threat of Climate Change in Jeff Nichols’s Take Shelter - Agnes WoolleyMyth and Multiple Readings in Environmental Rhetoric: The Case of An Inconvenient Truth - Thomas Rosteck and Thomas FrentzClimate Change ‘Science’ on the London Stage - Stephen BottomsRepresenting Nature: Art and Climate Change - Malcolm MilesFrom the B&N Reads Blog
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