Climate Change Epistemologies in Southern Africa (eBook, ePUB)

Social and Cultural Dimensions
Redaktion: Ahrens, Jörn; Halbmayer, Ernst

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the social and cultural dimensions of climate change in Southern Africa, focusing on how knowledge about climate change is conceived and conveyed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000902389
• Artikelnr.: 68030511

Autorenporträt

Jörn Ahrens is Professor of Cultural Sociology at Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU), Germany, and Extraordinary Professor of Social Anthropology at North-West University (NWU), South Africa. Ernst Halbmayer is Professor for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Marburg, Germany, where he is also Director of the Marburg Ethnographic Collection.

Inhaltsangabe

Jörn Ahrens, Ernst Halbmayer: Introduction: epistemologies of global
warming in the South. The social and cultural dimension of climate change
in Southern Africa
Part 1: Climate and climate change - justice epistemologies
1. Michael Bollig: Drought, disaster and identity in northwestern
Namibia in times of global climate change
2. Michael Sheridan: When rain is a person: rainmaking, relational
persons, and post-human ontologies in sub-Saharan Africa
3. Werner Nell: Environmental attitudes and narratives in two rural
South African communities: implications for intervention
4. Patrick Bond, Mary Galvin: Conflicting narratives of extreme weather
events in Durban, South Africa: politically opportunistic,
experiential and climate-justice epistemologies in an extreme weather
event
Part 2: Climate change communication
5. Anna Taylor, Dianne Scott: receptivity to the knowledge of others:
building urban climate resilience in southern African cities
6. Gabriel Faimau, Esther Nkhukhu-Orlando, Nelson Sello: Print media
coverage and the socio-contextual Representation of climate change in
Botswana"
Part 3: Just Transition and international co-operation
7. Steve Vanderheiden: Climate change equity and extreme vulnerability
8. Matthias Rompel: Adaptation to climate change in Southern Africa:
challenges for sustainable development, and the role of International
co-operation