3rd Edition
Anthropology and Climate Change From Transformations to Worldmaking
In this third edition of Anthropology and Climate Change, Susan Crate and Mark Nuttall offer a collection of chapters that examine how anthropologists work on climate change issues with their collaborators, both in academic research and practicing contexts, and discuss new developments in contributions to policy and adaptation at different scales. Building on the first edition’s pioneering focus on anthropology’s burgeoning contribution to climate change research, policy, and action, as well as the second edition’s focus on transformations and new directions for anthropological work on climate change, this new edition reveals the extent to which anthropologists’ contributions are considered to be critical by climate scientists, policymakers, affected communities, and other rights-holders. Drawing on a range of ethnographic and policy issues, this book highlights the work of anthropologists in the full range of contexts – as scholars, educators, and practitioners from academic institutions to government bodies, international science agencies and foundations, working in interdisciplinary research teams and with community research partners.
The contributions to this new edition showcase important new academic research, as well as applied and practicing approaches. They emphasize human agency in the archaeological record, the rapid development in the last decade of community-based and community-driven research and disaster research; provide rich ethnographic insight into worldmaking practices, interventions, and collaborations; and discuss how, and in what ways, anthropologists work in policy areas and engage with regional and global assessments.
This new edition is essential for established scholars and for students in anthropology and a range of other disciplines, including environmental studies, as well as for practitioners who engage with anthropological studies of climate change in their work.
Introduction: from transformations to worldmaking
Susan A. Crate and Mark Nuttall
Part I Reorientations
- The arc of the Anthropocene: deep-time perspectives from environmental archaeology
- Re-fielding climate change in cultural anthropology
- A picaresque critique: the anthropology of disasters and displacement in the era of global warming and pandemics
- Understanding Arctic melt: reflections on collaborative interdisciplinary research
- ‘Knowing’ climate: engaging vernacular narratives of change
- "Don’t look down": green technologies, climate change, and mining
- Getting it right: What needs to be done to ensure First Nations’ participation and benefit from large-scale renewable energy developments on Country?
- Whither the winds of change? Worldmaking winds and seasonal disruptions in the northern Chilean Andes
- The water obliges: climate change and worldmaking practices in Peru
- Climate action with a lagniappe: coastal restoration, flood risk reduction, sacred site protection and Tribal communities' resilience
- Climate change as colonial echo in the Canadian Arctic
- On new ground: tracing human-muskox reconfigurations in Greenland
- The disappearing free reindeer: unexpected consequences of climate change for Fennoscandian reindeer herding
- Sakha and alaas: place attachment and cultural identity in a time of climate change
- A reflexive approach to climate change engagement with Sherpas from Khumbu and Pharak in
- Why we need to pay attention to wealth and inequality in lowering carbon emissions
- Decarbonization and making the energy future in the Welsh underlands
- Representation and luck: reflections on climate and collaboration in Shishmaref, Alaska
- Agricultural intensification in Northern Burkina Faso: smallholder adaptation to climate change
- Anthropological contributions to IPCC assessment work
- Negotiating science and policy in international climate assessments
- From "lone ranger" to team player: the role of anthropology in training a new generation of climate adaptation professionals
- Climate counter-hegemony: crafting an anthropological climate politics through student-faculty collaborations in the classroom and on the streets
- Caiyugluku: pulling from within to meet the challenges in a rapidly changing Arctic
- Culture and heritage in climate conversations: reflections on connecting culture, heritage and climate change
Arlene Miller Rosen
Meredith Welch-Devine and Heather Lazrus
A.J. Faas
Mark Nuttall
Susan A. Crate
Part II Worldmaking Practices
Jerry K. Jacka
Katie Quail, Donna Green and Ciaran O’Faircheallaigh
Penelope Dransart and Marietta Ortega Perrier
Astrid B. Stensrud
Julie Maldonado, Kristina Peterson, R. Eugene Turner, Theresa Dardar, Shirell Parfait-Dardar, Rosina Philippe, Donald Dardar, Alessandra Jerolleman, Julie Torres, Rebecca Lovingood and Mira Olson
Franz Krause
Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen and Janne Flora
Majken Paulsen, Grete K. Hovelsrud and Camilla Risvoll
Susan A. Crate
northeastern Nepal (Mount Everest Region)
Pasang Yangjee Sherpa and Ornella Puschiasis
Part III Interventions
Beatriz Barros and Richard Wilk
Mark Nuttall
Dennis Davis and Elizabeth Marino
Colin Thor West and Carla Roncoli
Pamela McElwee
Jessica O’Reilly
Sarah Strauss and Courtney Kurlanska
Brian J. Burke, Sydney Blume and Michael Z. Weiss
Fred Phillip, Raychelle Aluaq Daniel, Jonella Ququngaq Larson, Anne Stevens Henshaw and Erin Dougherty Lynch
William P. Megarry, Hana Morel, Sarah Forgesson and Eduardo S. Brondizio
Epilogue
Susan A. Crate and Mark Nuttall
Index
Biography
Susan A. Crate is an environmental and cognitive anthropologist and Professor Emeritus of George Mason University, USA.
Mark Nuttall is Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair of Anthropology at the University of Alberta, Canada. He is also Adjunct Professor at Ilisimatusarfik/University of Greenland and the Greenland Climate Research Centre in Nuuk, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
"This third edition of Anthropology and Climate Change is an excellent assemblage of articles and case studies exploring the reorientations required for fully capturing the multiple and complexly intertwined challenges of climate change, the need to reconfigure through a process of world-making different ways (worlds) of envisioning how we relate to one another and to our environments, and finally, the problems and pitfalls that occur when global policy fails to recognize local capacities and vulnerabilities. Challenging the neoliberal logic that negates the possibility of other possible futures, essentially construing neoliberal capitalism as some ultimate stage of human evolution (Baschet 2003), the authors assert that anthropology thus must tap into the full array of resources, past, contemporary and imagined, for guides for creating alternative futures beyond the current relentless construction of risk. Framing the focus of the third edition with the subtitle "From Transformations to World-Making," Crate and Nuttall and the various authors contend that if climate change doesn't move us toward imagining other worlds (ways) than current neoliberal approaches, we never will, and the consequences will be catastrophic. The third edition of Anthropology and Climate Change moves that discussion significantly forward."
Anthony Oliver-Smith, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Florida
