Overview

'Climate' is an old idea, but an idea which retains tremendous power, versatility and utility in today's world. For the Ancient Greeks, climate worked both as index and as agency , and this dual function has recurred throughout human cultural history and it works too in contemporary discourses about climate change. Climates change physically, but climates can also change ideologically. What climate means to different people in different places in different eras is not stable. If culture is concerned with how human meaning, symbolism and practice take on substantive and material forms, then studying climate through culture is likely to be a fruitful activity. This Major Work is a valuable synopsis of a diffuse discourse and captures some of the most important writing on climate and culture that has appeared since the 1980s. It provides a structure within which the recently growing body of work in human geography, anthropology, sociology and religious studies can be placed. Volume One: Theorising Climate and Culture Volume Two: The Agencies of Climate Volume Three: Reading Climate and Culture in the Past Volume Four: Reading Climate and Culture in the Future Volume Five: Climate and Culture in Places Volume Six: Cultural Representations of Climate

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Author:   Mike Hulme
Publisher:   Sage Publications Ltd
Imprint:   Sage Publications Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 13.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   3.810kg
ISBN:  

9781473904521

ISBN 10:   1473904528
Pages:   1888
Publication Date:   09 July 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

VOLUME ONE: CULTURES OF CLIMATE KNOWLEDGE The Classification of Climates from Pythagoras to Koeppen - Marie Sanderson The Definition of the Standard WMO Climate Normal - Antony Arguez and Russell Vose Linguistic Dimensions of Weather and Climate Perception - Alan Stewart Meteorological Knowledge and Environmental Ideas in Traditional and Modern Societies: The Case of Tibet - Toni Huber and Poul Pedersen Glaciers and Climate Change: Perspectives from Oral Tradition - Julie Cruikshank The Anxieties of a Science Diplomat: Field Coproduction of Climate Knowledge and the Rise and Fall of Hans Ahlman's 'Polar Warming' - Sverker Soerlin Representing the Global Atmosphere: Computer Models, Data and Knowledge about Climate Change - Paul Edwards Verification, Validation and Confirmation of Numerical Models in the Earth Sciences - Naomi Oreskes, Kristin Shrader-Frechette and Kenneth Belitz Anticipating Nature: The Productive Uncertainty of Climate Models - Kirsten Hastrup The Global Warming of Climate Science: Climategate and the Construction of Scientific Facts - Marianne Ryghaug and Tomas Skjolsvold Anatomy of Dissent: A Cultural Analysis of Climate Skepticism - Myanna Lahsen Sila Dialogues on Climate Change: Inuit Wisdom for a Cross-Cultural Interdisciplinarity - Timothy Leduc Indigenous Climate Knowledge in Southern Uganda: The Multiple Components of a Dynamic Regional System - Ben Orlove, Carla Roncoli, Merit Kabugo and Abushen Majigu Culture, Law, Risk and Governance: Contexts of Traditional Knowledge in Climate Change Adaptation - Terry Williams and Preston Hardison 'We Have Seen It with Our Own Eyes': Why We Disagree about Climate Change Visibility - Peter Rudiak-Gould VOLUME TWO: HISTORICAL READINGS OF CLIMATE Chinese Attitudes towards Climate - Cho-yun Hsu The Meteorological Framework and the Cultural Memory of Three Severe Winter-Storms in Early Eighteenth Century Europe - Christian Pfister, Emmanuel Garnier, Maria-Joao Alcoforado, Dennis Wheeler, Jurg Luterbacher, Maria Nunes and Joao Taborda Time, Talk and the Weather in Eighteenth-Century Britain - Jan Golinski Climates as Commodities: Jean Pierre Purry and the Modelling of the Best Climate on Earth - Vladimir Jankovic Inventing Caribbean Climates: How Science, Medicine, and Tourism Changed Tropical Weather from Deadly to Healthy - Mark Carey Seeing Climate through Culture - Lawrence Culver Perceiving, Explaining and Observing Climatic Changes: An Historical Case Study of the 'Year without Summer' 1816 - Tom Bodenmann, Stefan Broennimann, Gertrude Hadorn, Tobias Kruger and Helmut Weissert 'The Languor of the Hot Weather': Everyday Perspectives on Weather and Climate in Colonial Bombay, 1819-1828 - George Adamson Drought, Desiccation and Discourse: Missionary Correspondence and Nineteenth-Century Climate Change in Central Southern Africa - Georgina Endfield and David Nash Tropical Climate and Moral Hygiene: The Anatomy of a Victorian Debate - David Livingstone The Perfectionists and the Weather: The Oneida Community's Quest for Meteorological Utopia 1848-1879 - William Meyer Modernity's Frail Climate: A Climate History of Environmental Reflexivity - Fabien Locher and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz The Debate over Climate Change in the Steppe Region in Nineteenth-Century Russia - David Moon Is Global Culture Warming Up? - Andrew Ross VOLUME THREE: CLIMATE AND AGENCY Change in the Weather - Vladimir Jankovic Domain of the Gods: An Editorial Essay - Simon Donner Climatic Change and Witch-Hunting: The Impact of the Little Ice Age on Mentalities - Wolfgang Behringer An Amazing and Portentous Summer: Environmental and Social Responses in Britain to the 1783 Eruption of an Iceland Volcano - John Grattan and Mark Brayshay The Climate Engineers - James Fleming Huntington and Lovelock: Climatic Determinism in the 20th Century - Kent McGregor Climate, Race Science and the Age of Consent in the League of Nations - Ashwini Tambe Human Agency, Climate Change and Culture: An Archaeological Perspective - Fekri Hassan Human Adaptation to Climate Change: A Review of Three Historical Cases and Some General Perspectives - Ben Orlove Temporality and the Problem with Singling Out Climate as a Current Driver of Change in a Small West African Village - Jonas Nielsen and Anette Reenberg Climate Change and Conflict - Ragnhild Nordas and Nils Petter Gleditsch The First Climate Refugees? Contesting Global Narratives of Climate Change in Tuvalu - Carol Farbotko and Heather Lazrus Are Cultures Endangered by Climate Change? Yes, But ... - Sarah Strauss Trust and Climate - Nico Stehr VOLUME FOUR: CLIMATE AND CULTURE IN PLACES AND PRACTICES A New Climate for Society - Sheila Jasanoff Earth, Sky, Wind, and Weather - Tim Ingold Making Sense of the Weather: Dwelling and Weathering on Canada's Rain Coast - Phillip Vannini, Dennis Waskul, Simon Gottschalk and Toby Ellis-Newstead Emotional Climates: Ritual, Seasonality and Affective Disorders - Simon Harrison Seasonal Climate Change and the Indoor City Worker - Russell Hitchings Why Indoor Climates Change: A Case Study - William Meyer Reculturing and Particularising Climate Discourses: Weather, Identity and the Work of Gordon Manley - Georgina Endfield Climate and Culture Connections in Australia - Neville Nicholls An Australian Feeling for Snow: Towards Understanding Cultural and Emotional Dimensions of Climate Change - Andrew Gorman-Murray Whether Rain or Shine: Weather Regimes from a New Guinea Perspective - Paul Sillitoe Seasons in the Sun - Weather and Climate Front-Page News Stories in Europe's Rainiest City, Bergen, Norway - Elisabeth Meze-Hausken Localizing Climate Change: A Multi-Sited Approach - Werner Krauss Progress, Decline and the Public Uptake of Climate Science - Peter Rudiak-Gould Bare Rocks and Fallen Angels: Environmental Change, Climate Perceptions and Ritual Practice in the Peruvian Andes - Karsten Paerregaard Human Geographies of Climate Change: Landscape, Temporality, and Lay Knowledges - Catherine Brace and Hilary Geoghegan VOLUME FIVE: CULTURAL READINGS OF FUTURE CLIMATE Improving Forecast Communication: Linguistic and Cultural Considerations - Karen Pennesi People Want to Protect Themselves a Little Bit : Emotions, Denial and Social Movement Nonparticipation - Kari Norgaard Commodifying the Atmosphere: 'Pennies from Heaven'? - John Thornes and Samuel Randalls The Right to Keep Cold - Neil Adger The End of Model Democracy? An Editorial Comment - Reto Knutti Democracy, Climate Change and Global Governance: Democratic Agency and the Policy Menu Ahead - David Held and Angus Hervey Tipping Points and the Human World: Living with Change and Thinking about the Future - Mark Nuttall Google Warming: Google Earth as Eco-Machinima - Leon Gurevitch The Flood Myth in the Age of Global Climate Change - Michael Salvador and Todd Norton Climate Change and Apocalyptic Faith - Stefan Skrimshire The Unbearable Lightness of Green: Air Travel, Climate Change and Literature - Greg Garrard Reading and Writing the Weather: Climate Technics and the Moment of Responsibility - Bronislaw Szerszynski Metaphors We Die By? Geoengineering, Metaphors and the Argument from Catastrophe - Brigitte Nerlich and Rusi Jaspal Geoengineering, Theology and the Meaning of Being Human - Forrest Clingerman Reducing the Future to Climate: A Story of Climate Determinism and Reductionism - Mike Hulme VOLUME SIX: CLIMATE CHANGE IN LITERARY, VISUAL AND PERFORMANCE CULTURES A Change in the Climate: New Interpretations and Perceptions of Climate Change through Artistic Interventions and Representations - Lesley Duxbury Arts, Sciences and Climate Change: Practices and Politics at the Threshold - Jennifer Gabrys and Kathryn Yusoff 'Telling a Different Tale': Literary, Historical and Meteorological Reading of a Norfolk Heatwave - Mike Hulme Picturing Climate Change - Stefan Broennimann Picturing the Clima(c)tic: Greenpeace and the Representational Politics of Climate Change Communication - Julie Doyle Seeing Climate Change: The Visual Construction of Global Warming in Canadian National Print Media - Darryn DiFrancesco and Nathan Young Imaging Vulnerability: The Iconography of Climate Change - Kate Manzo Climate Change in Literature and Literary Criticism - Adam Trexler and Adeline Johns-Putra Solar: Apocalypse Not - Greg Garrard Melting Ice and the Paradoxes of Zeno: Didactic Impulses and Aesthetic Distanciation in German Climate Change Fiction - Axel Goodbody Cultural Climatology and the Representation of Sky, Atmosphere, Weather and Climate in Selected Art Works of Constable, Monet and Eliasson - John Thornes There's a Storm Coming! : Reading the Threat of Climate Change in Jeff Nichols's Take Shelter - Agnes Woolley Myth and Multiple Readings in Environmental Rhetoric: The Case of An Inconvenient Truth - Thomas Rosteck and Thomas Frentz Climate Change 'Science' on the London Stage - Stephen Bottoms Representing Nature: Art and Climate Change - Malcolm Miles

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Mike Hulme is professor of climate and culture in the Department of Geography at King's College London. His work sits at the intersection of climate, history and culture. He studies how knowledge about climate and its changes is made and represented and analyses the numerous ways in which the idea of climate-change is deployed in public discourse around the world. His previous books include Can Science Fix Climate Change? A Case Against Climate Engineering (Polity, 2014), Exploring Climate Change Through Science and In Society (Routledge, 2013) and Why We Disagree About Climate Change (Cambridge, 2009). This latter book was chosen by The Economist magazine as one of its science and technology books of the year. From 2000 to 2007 he was the Founding Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, based at the University of East Anglia, and since 2007 has been the founding Editor-in-Chief of the review journal Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs) Climate Change. He is currently Head of Department.

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