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Climate Cultures - (Yale Agrarian Studies) by Jessica Barnes & Michael R Dove (Paperback)

Climate Cultures - (Yale Agrarian Studies) by  Jessica Barnes & Michael R Dove (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our times, yet also seemingly intractable. This book offers novel insights on this contemporary challenge, drawing together the state-of-the-art thinking in anthropology. Approaching climate change as a<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"[A] timely, thorough, well-written collection."--<i>Choice</i>-- "Choice"<br><br>"<i>Climate Cultures</i> offers major insights, makes significant contributions, and illustrates the impressive scope of current anthropological perspectives applied to understanding climate change in new and original ways. It is extremely important scholarship."--Karl Zimmerer, Pennsylvania State University--Karl Zimmerer<br><br>"A brilliant overview of this emerging area of study. Barnes and Dove have provided an accessible volume that will shape the social study of climate and climate change from here on."--Jesse Ribot, University of Illinois--Jesse Ribot<br><br>"From the meetings of the IPCC to the perambulations of herders in India, these essays do the crucial work of mapping the origins and impacts of circulating, global, and power-laden climate change cultures."--Paul Robbins, author of <i>Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction</i>--Paul Robbins<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Jessica Barnes</b> is assistant professor, Department of Geography and Environment and Sustainability Program, University of South Carolina. She lives in Columbia, SC. <b>Michael Dove</b> is Margaret K. Musser Professor of Social Ecology and Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. He lives in Killingworth, CT.

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