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Climate Change and Tradition in a Small Island State
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The Rising Tide
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Artikel-Nr:
9780415832496
Veröffentl:
2013
Erscheinungsdatum:
24.06.2013
Seiten:
226
Autor:
Peter Rudiak-Gould
Gewicht:
408 g
Format:
229x155x18 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Peter Rudiak-Gould is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University.
The citizens of the Marshall Islands have been told that climate change will doom their country, and they have seen confirmatory omens in the land, air, and sea. This book investigates how grassroots Marshallese society has interpreted and responded to this threat as intimated by local observation, science communication, and Biblical exegesis. It illuminates islander agency at the intersection of the local and the global, and suggests a theory of risk perception based on ideological commitment to narratives of historical progress and decline.
Introduction: A Scientific Prophecy 1. Modernity the Trickster: From First Contact to the Postcolonial State 2. Climate Change Dawns On Marshall Islanders 3. Pervasive Decline and the Eminent Believability of Climate Change 4. Seductive Modernity, In-Group Blame, and the Mitigation Movement 5. Modernity's Second Coming: The Unsettling Issue of Resettlement. Conclusion: Making Sense of Climate Change.