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The Social Life of Climate Change Models: Anticipating Nature

By Kirsten Hastrup , Martin Skrydstrup

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2012
ISBN
041562858X, 9780415628587
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2903032 bytes)
Series
Routledge Studies in Anthropology
Edition
1
Pages
250\249
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-10-04 14:15:29
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Description

Drawing on a combination of perspectives from diverse fields, this volume offers an anthropological study of climate change and the ways in which people attempt to predict its local implications, showing how the processes of knowledge making among lay people and experts are not only comparable but also deeply entangled. Through analysis of predictive practices in a diversity of regions affected by climate change – including coastal India, the Cook Islands, Tibet, and the High Arctic, and various domains of scientific expertise and policy making such as ice core drilling, flood risk modelling, and coastal adaptation – the book shows how all attempts at modelling nature’s course are deeply social, and how current research in "climate" contributes to a rethinking of nature as a multiplicity of modalities that impact social life.

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