Climate, Capitalism and Communities

An Anthropology of Environmental Overheating

Astrid B. Stensrud, Thomas Hylland Eriksen

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9780745339566
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781786804877
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Environmental Economics
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• 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