Until now, the growing body of work on environmental anthropology has largely ignored the unavoidable impact of global capitalism on the environment and the extent to which capital itself is a key driver of climate change. Climate, Capitalism and Communities focuses explicitly on that nexus, examining the injustices and inequalities - as well as the activist responses - that have arisen as a result, and the contradictions between the imperatives of exponential economic growth, and those of environmental sustainability, and society as a whole. Bringing an innovative, ethnographic toolkit to bear on a crisis that is at once global and highly localised, the authors shift attention away from the consequences of climate change, to a focus on the social relations and power structures that continue to prevent effective action.

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Information

Publisher

Pluto Press

Year

2019

ISBN

9781786804877

Edition

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Cultural & Social Anthropology

Index

Social Sciences

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
Preface
1. Introduction: Anthropological Perspectives on Global Economic and Environmental Crises in an Overheated World
2. The Political Economy of the Great Acceleration, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
3. A Community on the Brink of Extinction? Ecological Crises and Ruined Landscapes in Northwest Greenland
4. Sea Ice, Climate and Resources: The Changing Nature of Hunting Along Greenland’s Northwest Coast
5. Volatility: Understanding Global Capitalism and Climate Change Vulnerability in Mongolia
6. The Dark Side of Progress: The Intersections of Climate Change, Neoliberalism and Modernity in Peru
7. Puzzling Pieces and Situated Urgencies of Climate Change and Globalisation in the High Arctic: Three Stories from Qaanaaq
8. Counting: Health Emergencies and the Constitution of Extractive Natures in Northern Loreto, Peru
9. Expansive Capitalism, Climate Change and Global Climate Mitigation Regimes: A Triple Burden on Forest Peoples in the Global South
10. Climate Change, Oceanic Sovereignties and Maritime Economies in the Pacific
11. Islands of Hope and Despair: Scaling the Collapses and the Collapse of Scales
12. Using a Glacier Website to Promote Action and Build Community: Engaged Anthropology in the Digital Age
Notes on Contributors
Index