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Climate change and tradition in a small island state : the rising tide / Peter Rudiak-Gould

New York ; London : Routledge, c2013

Online-Ressource (xviii, 226 p) : ill

Englisch

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Scientific Prophecy; Climate Change and the Marshall Islands; Theoretical Foundations; Methodology; 1. Modernity the Trickster: From First Contact to the Postcolonial State; A Brief History of Contact; The Marshallese Way; Cultural Decline and Seductive Modernity; 2. Climate Change Dawns on Marshall Islanders; The First Channel: Reception; The Role of WUTMI; The Role of MICS; The Second Channel: Observation

The Third Channel: ExegesisWho Can be Trusted?; Becoming Aware of Climate Change; Fishing from One's Living Room; A Theological Debate; The Torn Blanket; Impacts Everywhere; The Eager Observers; Mountainless and Luckless; Unaware and Unconcerned; The Threatened Church; Visions of Destruction; Human-Caused Harms; Global Warming versus God; Only Anecdotal Evidence; The Trillion-Dollar Problem; The Hyperbeliever; The Occasional Skeptic; 3. Pervasive Decline and the Eminent Believability of Climate Change; Climate Change Belief and Modernity the Trickster; Case One: An Eroding Graveyard

Case Two: Communicating Climate ChangeCase Three: The (Mis)translation of Climate; Conclusion; 4. Seductive Modernity, In-Group Blame, and the Mitigation Movement; Who or What is Responsible?; Marshallese Narratives of Climate Change Responsibility; The Origins of In-Group Blame; The Mitigation Movement; Conclusion; 5. Modernity's Second Coming: The Unsettling Issue of Resettlement; Rejecting Resettlement; The Value of the Homeland; Adaptation and the Affirmation of Tradition; Conclusion: Making Sense of Climate Change; A Trajectory Theory of Risk Perception; Looking Forward; Notes

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Print version: Climate Change and Tradition in a Small Island State : The Rising Tide

978-0-415-83249-6

978-0-415-83249-6 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Online-Ausg.

2013

Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

978-0-203-42742-2 (e-book)

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QC903.2.M37

363.738/74099683 ; 304.23099683     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Blame -- Social aspects -- Marshall Islands ; Risk perception -- Marshall Islands ; Social change -- Marshall Islands ; Social movements -- Marshall Islands ; Marshall Islands -- Environmental conditions ; Marshall Islands -- Social life and customs ; Environmental degradation -- Marshall Islands ; Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Marshall Islands ; Climatic changes -- Marshall Islands

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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. With grounds to dismiss or ignore the threat, Marshall Islanders have instead embraced it; with reasons to forswear guilt and responsibility, they have instead adopted in-group blame; and having been instructed that resettlement is necessary, they have v