Climate Change and Anthropos: Planet, people and places (Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research)

Anthropos, in the sense of species as well as cultures and ethics, locates humans as part of much larger orders of existence – fundamental when thinking about climate change. This book offers a new way of exploring the significance of locality and lives in the epoch of the Anthropocene, a time when humans confront the limits of our control over nature. Many scholars now write about the ethics, policies and politics of climate change, focussing on global processes and effects. The book’s innovative approach to cross-cultural comparison and a regionally based study explores people’s experiences of environmental change and the meaning of climate change for diverse human worlds in a changing biosphere. The main study site is the Hunter Valley in southeast Australia: an ecological region defined by the Hunter River catchment; a dwelling place for many generations of people; and a key location for transnational corporations focussed on the mining, burning and export of black coal. Abundant fossil fuel reserves tie Hunter people and places to the Asia Pacific – the engine room of global economic growth in the twenty-first century and the largest user of the planet’s natural resources. The book analyses the nexus of place and perceptions, political economy and social organisation in situations where environmental changes are radically transforming collective worlds. Based on an anthropological approach informed by other ways of thinking about environment-people relationships, this book analyses the social and cultural dimensions of climate change holistically. Each chapter links the large scales of species and planet with small places, commodity chains, local actions, myths and values, as well as the mingled strands of dystopian imaginings and strivings for recuperative renewal in an era of transition.

Climate Change and Anthropos (Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research)

CONNOR, Linda

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Routledge

Jero Tapakan is a popular village spirit medium on the island of Bali, Indonesia. Clients consult her about problems ranging from physical and mental illness to theft and advice on ritual matters. This book is a fascinating case-study of healing in a Southeast Asian society, and is unique because the book is integrated with film of specific patient treatments, as well as of Jero's own reflections on her life and work. Healer Jero, anthropologist Linda Connor, and ethnographic film-makers Timothy Asch and Patsy Asch collaborated in the study and in the production of the book and films, and for the first time a major academic press has produced a video-cassette of films to accompany the book. The result is an unrivalled resource for people interested in alternative medical systems, and is an important and innovative contribution to ethnographic methodology.

Jero Tapakan: Balinese Healer: An Ethnographic Film Monograph

Politics & Social Sciences

Asch, Patsy

Asch, Timothy

Anthropology

Cambridge University Press

From the publisher: "These photographs are 'memories' beyond time; what they help us remember is the eternal and immediate nature and process of existence."

SOLOS: Photographs by Linda Connor.

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Apeiron Workshops, Inc.

The third in the "LUX" series of fine art photography monographs by the Center for Photographic Arts.

Luminance (Lux)

Woodrose Publishing

Woodrose Pub. in association with the Center for Photographic Art

The Winterthur Collection: from Connor Mill-Built Homes

Connor, Michael

Architecture

Independently published

Climate change makes fossil fuels unburnable, yet global coal production has almost doubled over the last 20 years. This book explores how the world can stop mining coal - the most prolific source of greenhouse gas emissions. It documents efforts at halting coal production, focusing specifically on how campaigners are trying to stop coal mining in India, Germany, and Australia. Through in-depth comparative ethnography, it shows how local people are fighting to save their homes, livelihoods, and environments, creating new constituencies and alliances for the transition from fossil fuels. The book relates these struggles to conflicts between global climate policy and the national coal-industrial complex. With coal's meaning transformed from an important asset to a threat, and the coal industry declining, it charts reasons for continuing coal dependence, and how this can be overcome. It will provide a source of inspiration for energy transition for researchers in environment, sustainability, and politics, as well as policymakers.

Beyond the Coal Rush: A Turning Point for Global Energy and Climate Policy?

Business & Money

Goodman, James

Morton, Tom

Pearse, Rebecca

Rosewarne, Stuart

Ghosh, Devleena

Kohli, Kanchi

Marshall, Jonathan Paul

Menon, Manju

Mueller, Katja

Economics

Understanding Money - Finance Activity Book and Lessons on Earning, Saving & Investing for Kids Ages 8-12: Engaging Activities to Develop Financial Literacy

Children's Books

Education & Reference

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