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anthropology of science
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Climate Change
Climate Models
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Diagrammatic Reasoning
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Generic Interdisciplinarity
GReenland Ice Core Project
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indigenous knowledge systems
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Local Knowledge
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Numerical Climate Model
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social dimensions of climate forecasting
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Tamil Nadu
Tibet Autonomous Region
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780415628587
  • Weight: 620g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 17 Sep 2012
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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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.

About
Kirsten Hastrup is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. Martin Skrydstrup is a post-doctoral scholar at the University of Copenhagen.