ISBN:
9781032388267
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1032388269
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9781032388359
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1032388358
Language:
English
Pages:
xxiii, 282 pages
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illustrations, maps
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24 cm
Series Statement:
Routledge environmental humanities
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Storying multipolar climes of the Himalaya, Andes and Arctic
DDC:
304.2/80911
Keywords:
Climatic changes Social aspects
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Climatic changes Social aspects
;
Climatic changes Social aspects
;
Mountain climate
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Climat - Changements - Aspect social - Himālaya
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Climat - Changements - Aspect social - Arctique
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Climat de montagne
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Climatic changes - Social aspects
;
Mountain climate
;
Andes Region
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Arctic Regions
;
Himalaya Mountains Region
Abstract:
"This book initiates multipolar climate/clime studies of the world's altitudinal and latitudinal highlands with terrestrial, experiential, and affective approaches. Framed in the environmental humanities, it is an interdisciplinary, comparative study of the mutually-embodied relations of climate, nature, culture, and place in the Himalaya, Andes, and Arctic. Innovation-driven, the book offers multipolar clime case studies through the contributors' historical findings, ethnographic documentations, and diverse conceptualizations and applications of clime, an overlooked but returning notion of place embodied with climate history, pattern, and changes. The multipolar clime case studies in the book are geared toward deeper, lively explorations and demonstrations of the translatability, interchangeability, and complementarity between the notions of clime and climate. "Multipolar" or "multipolarity" in this book connotes not only the two polar regions and the tectonically shaped highlands of the earth but also diversely debated perspectives of climate studies in the broadest sense. Contributors across the twelve chapters come from diverse fields of social and natural sciences and humanities, and geographically specialize respectively in the Himalayan, Andean, and Arctic regions. The first comparative study of climate change in altitudinal and latitudinal highlands, this will be an important read for students, academics and researchers in environmental humanities, anthropology, climate science, indigenous studies and ecology"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Multipolar clime studies of the anthropocenic Himalaya, Andes and Arctic : an introduction / Dan Smyer Yü -- The Himalaya and Monsoon Asia : anthropocenic climes since the 1800s / Sunil Amrith and Dan Smyer Yü -- Climing the Andes : vertical complementarity, transhuman reciprocity, and climate change in the Peruvian Highlands / Karsten Paerregaard -- Pluriversal Tundra : storying more than human ecologies across deep, accelerated, and troubled times / Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen -- Eno : eco-spiritual water climes of Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh / Razzeko Delley and Ambika Aiyadurai -- Water climing : a cosmopolitical ecology of water in the southern Peruvian Andes / Malene K. Brandshaug -- Offerings from the rivers to the mountains : mist and fog as connecting life force in the Sikkimese Himalayas / Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia -- Life and loss of a felt habitat : exploring the Haor of Bangladesh / Iftekhar Iqbal -- Storylining climes / Theodore G. Shepherd and Chi Huyen Truong -- Not just the science : a transdisciplinary pedagogy for cryospheric climes / Vandana Singh -- Climing the great gorge : the many discoveries of the Yarlung Tsangpo Gorge / Ruth Gamble -- Other-than-human subjectivities in a melting world : "climing" as ontological disobedience in the Andes / Anders Burman -- Collapsing elephant clime since the little ice age : climatic refugees, animal zomia and elephant modernity in Yunnan / Dan Smyer Yü -- Conclusion : multilateral clime studies / Jelle J.P. Wouters.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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