Environmental Transformations and Cultural Responses (eBook)

Ontologies, Discourses, and Practices in Oceania

Eveline Dürr, Arno Pascht (Herausgeber)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2017
XIV, 233 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-137-53349-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This book explores the various ways in which different communities and peoples in Oceania respond to and engage with recent environmental challenges and concurrent socio-political reconfigurations. Based on empirical research, the book discusses topics such as belonging, emotional attachment to land, and new forms of environmental knowledge. The theoretical framework of the book is inspired by current debates among diverse conceptualisations of the environment and thus, of various ways of knowing, making sense of, and interacting with worlds. With this focus in mind, the book provides new insights into recent socio-cultural and environmental dynamics in the Pacific. 

Eveline Dürr is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany. She has worked in New Zealand, Mexico, and the US. Her research addresses environmental issues, urban inequality, and mobilities.

Arno Pascht is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany. He has worked in the Cook Islands on land tenure and chiefs today, and is currently conducting a project investigating the localizing of global climate change policies in Vanuatu.

 

Inhalt

1. Engaging with Environmental Transformations in Oceania 2. Climate Change, Christian Religion and Songs: Revisiting the Noah Story in the Central Pacific3. Climate Change and Worries over Land: Articulations in the Atoll State of Kiribati4. Experiencing Environmental Dynamics in Chuuk, Micronesia5. Young ni-Vanuatu Reception of Knowledge of Climate Change6. Whose Beach, Which Nature? Coproducing Coastal Naturecultures and Erosion Control in Aotearoa New Zealand7. The “White Magic” of Modernity: Retracing Indigenous Environmental Knowledge in Settler-Colonialist Australia8. Naturally Occurring Asbestos and Perceptions of Rocks in the Mountains of New Caledonia9. Epilogue: Re-building Ships at Sea: Ontological Innovation in Action

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.3.2017
• Zusatzinfo: XIV, 233 p. 12 illus., 11 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: API • Chuuk • climate change • global warming • Kiribati Pacific Islanders • Micronesia • Pacific Islanders • Vanuatu
• ISBN-10: 1-137-53349-8 / 1137533498
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-53349-4 / 9781137533494