Environmental transformations and cultural responses : ontologies, discourses, and practices in Oceania /: ontologies, discourses, and practices in Oceania. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Eveline Dürr, Arno Pascht, editors.
• Editors: Dürr, Eveline; Pascht, Arno
• Contents: Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Contributors; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Engaging with Environmental Transformation in Oceania; Researching Climate Change; Challenging Cartesian Dichotomies; Environment(s); Structure of the Book; References; Chapter 2: Climate Change, Christian Religion and Songs: Revisiting the Noah Story in the Central Pacific; Introduction; Social Science Representations of the Noah Story; The Noah Story in Kiribatiś Political Arena; Mobilising the Noah Story in Songs; Conclusion; Notes; References. Chapter 3: Climate Change and Worries over Land: Articulations in the Atoll State of KiribatiIntroduction; Kiribati, Land, and Climate Change; Emotions Relating to the Land; Articulating Worries about the Land; Worries and the Will to Protect the Land; Conclusion: Articulating Worry and the Will for Social Resilience; Notes; References; Chapter 4: Experiencing Environmental Dynamics in Chuuk, Micronesia; Kúún ennefen: ``The High Tides Come More Often Now;́́ The chóón Chuukś Place in the World; Chuukś Other-than-Human World; Communicating and Experiencing Environmental Change. Explaining Environmental ChangeEnvironmental Change: A ``Dark Future?́́; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 5: Young ni-Vanuatu Encounter Climate Change: Reception of Knowledge and New Discourses; Introduction; Climate Change in Vanuatu; Knowledge, Environment(s), and Worldviews in Oceania; Traditional Knowledge in Vanuatu; Discourses on Climate Change: Actors and Measures; Young ni-Vanuatu in Port Vila; The Town of Port Vila; Experiencing Urban Life; Meanings and Roles of Scientific Knowledge About Climate Change; Conclusion: Encounters of Ideas; Notes; References. Chapter 6: Whose Beach, Which Nature? Coproducing Coastal Naturecultures and Erosion Control in Aotearoa New ZealandIntroduction: Coastal Naturecultures; Working with Nature; History of a Seawall; Who Owns the Beach? Defending the Local Coast; Dystopia Waihi Beach: Enrolling the Materiality of the Seawall into Coastal Policymaking; Possible Futures: Tāngata whenua and the Cultural Pillar of Sustainability; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 7: The ``White Magic ́́of Modernity: Retracing Indigenous Environmental Knowledge in Settler-Colonialist Australia; Introduction. Ontological Difference and ``The DreamingT́́heoretical Foundations of Historic German Scholarship in the Kimberley Region; Retracing Ontological Differences at Protest Camp Walmadany; Conclusion: Incommensurable Ontologies?; Notes; References; Chapter 8: Naturally Occurring Asbestos: The Perception of Rocks in the Mountains of New Caledonia; Introduction; The Traditional Meaning of Rocks in Kanak Culture; Kanak Rock Classification; Rocks in the Area of Gohapin; The Nature of Rocks; The Four Main Criteria of Kanak Rock Classification; The Shape (Form, Appearance, Colour).
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 363.7; Social sciences; Environmental sociology -- Oceania; Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Oceania; Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Oceania; Environmental policy -- Oceania; Environmental sociology; Environmental policy; Ethnography; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General; SCIENCE -- Environmental Science; Climatic changes -- Social aspects; Ecology; Environmental policy; Environmental sociology; Nature -- Effect of human beings on; Political Science -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy; Social Science -- Anthropology -- General; Central government policies; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Sociology; Oceania -- Environmental conditions; Oceania; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137533494; 1137533498; 9781137533487
• Related ISBNs: 113753348X; 9781137533487
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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