Climate change epistemologies in Southern Africa [electronic book] : social and cultural dimensions / edited by Ernst Halbmayer and Jörn Ahrens.
Contributor(s): Halbmayer, Ernst [editor]
| Ahrens, Jörn [editor].
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BookSeries: Routledge studies in African geography.Publisher: London : Routledge, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: online resource (224 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781032018522 (hardback); 9781000902365 (e-Book).Subject(s): Communication in climatology -- Social aspects -- Africa, Southern | Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Africa, SouthernDDC classification: 363.738740140968 Online resources: e-Book | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| e-BOOK | MTU Bishopstown Library eBook | 363.738740140968 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Despite contributing very little to the global production of emissions, the African continent looks set to be the hardest hit by climate change. Adopting a decolonial perspective, this book argues that knowledge and discourse about climate change has largely disregarded African epistemologies, leading to inequalities in knowledge systems. Only by considering regionally specific forms of conceptualizing, perceiving, and responding to climate change can these global problems be tackled. First exploring African epistemologies of climate change, the book then goes on to the social impacts of climate change, matters of climate justice, and finally institutional change and adaptation.
Providing important insights into the social and cultural perception and communication of climate change in Africa, this book will be of interest to researchers from across the fields of African studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, political science, climate change, and geography.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Climate and climate change epistemologies -- Climate change communication -- Just transition and international cooperation.
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. Despite contributing very little to the global production of emissions, the African continent looks set to be the hardest hit by climate change. Adopting a decolonial perspective, this book argues that knowledge and discourse about climate change has largely disregarded African epistemologies, leading to inequalities in knowledge systems. Only by considering regionally specific forms of conceptualizing, perceiving, and responding to climate change can these global problems be tackled. First exploring African epistemologies of climate change, the book then goes on to the social impacts of climate change, matters of climate justice, and finally institutional change and adaptation. Providing important insights into the social and cultural perception and communication of climate change in Africa, this book will be of interest to researchers from across the fields of African studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, political science, climate change, and geography.
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Author notes provided by Syndetics
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.