2020
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-anthro-010220-043113
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Climate Change: Expanding Anthropological Possibilities

Abstract: Climate anthropology has broadened over the past decade from predominately locally focused studies on climate impacts to encompass new approaches to climate science, mitigation, sustainability transformations, risks, and resilience. We examine how theoretical positionings, including from actor–network theory, new materialisms, ontologies, and cosmopolitics, have helped expand anthropological climate research, particularly in three key interrelated areas. First, we investigate ethnographic approaches to climate… Show more

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“…And yet climate materializes into each territory, influencing living beings in several ways. With its focus on human-environment interactions, anthropology is increasingly involved in climate research (Crate 2008;Lazrus 2012;Oliver-Smith and Hoffman 2019;Ballard, McDonnell, and Calandra 2020;O'Reilly et al 2020). Local ethnography often highlights the vulnerability and the fragility of marginalized communities.…”
Section: Stormvaia and Its Kinshipmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…And yet climate materializes into each territory, influencing living beings in several ways. With its focus on human-environment interactions, anthropology is increasingly involved in climate research (Crate 2008;Lazrus 2012;Oliver-Smith and Hoffman 2019;Ballard, McDonnell, and Calandra 2020;O'Reilly et al 2020). Local ethnography often highlights the vulnerability and the fragility of marginalized communities.…”
Section: Stormvaia and Its Kinshipmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Climate change is a newly emerging phenomenon that is difficult to experience across space and time (59). This characteristic means that making sense of climate change can be particularly challenging for nonexpert individuals, groups and societies, and opens space for consideration of the concept of framing, which has had separate although overlapping intellectual trajectories in anthropology, sociology, psychology, and communications.…”
Section: Framing and Climate Decisionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…[ ǂoab tsî |nanub |khara|kharasens, xūnī |gaub, xūna hōǃâ |gaub, ǃhūbaib, ǂans, ǂnamipeb, |khurub, Namibiab] M ost people have a story to tell about climate change. Over the past decades, a robust literature has shown that these stories merge scientific explanations with those from other worldviews, forming hybrid understandings of what is happening in the environment (Barnes and Dove 2015;O'Reilly et al 2020;Schnegg, O'Brian, and Sievert 2021). These analyses are often built on the ontological assumption that stories offer different, culturally informed representations of the same "thing"-the weather and its change.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although the concepts were available for some time, few mobilized this thinking to ethnographically analyze the changing climate (O'Reilly et al. 2020). A notable exception is the work of Mara J. Goldman, Meaghan Daly, and Eric J. Lovell, who have questioned why Maasai pastoralists and NGOs disagreed about which years were drought years (Goldman, Daly, and Lovell 2016).…”
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confidence: 99%