Climate Cultures

Anthropological Perspectives on Climate Change

Barnes Jessica, Dove Michael R.

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our times, yet global solutions have proved elusive. This book draws together cutting-edge anthropological research to uncover new ways of approaching the critical questions that surround climate change. Leading anthropologists engage in three major areas of inquiry: how climate change issues have been framed in previous times compared to present-day discourse, how knowledge about climate change and its impacts is produced and interpreted by different groups, and how imagination plays a role in shaping conceptions of climate change.

About the Author

Jessica Barnes is assistant professor, Department of Geography and Environment and Sustainability Program, University of South Carolina. She lives in Columbia, SC.

Michael Dove is Margaret K. Musser Professor of Social Ecology and Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. He lives in Killingworth, CT.

Reviews

"This volume provides readers with a synthesis of how people frame, know, and imagine climate change. The goal is important, and there is at this point sufficient social and physical climate science to make the task useful" – Arun Agrawal, author of 'Environmentality and Greener Pastures"

"A brilliant overview of this emerging area of study. Barnes and Dove have provided an accessible volume that will shape the social study of climate and climate change from here on" – Jesse Ribot, University of Illinois

"'Climate Cultures' offers major insights, makes significant contributions, and illustrates the impressive scope of current anthropological perspectives applied to understanding climate change in new and original ways. It is extremely important scholarship" – Karl Zimmerer, Pennsylvania State University

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