LEADER 03228nam 2200361 450 001 9910629586003321 005 20230510085357.0 024 7 $a10.2478/9783110591415 035 $a(CKB)5590000001000920 035 $a(NjHacI)995590000001000920 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000001000920 100 $a20230510d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPacific Climate Cultures $eLiving Climate Change in Oceania /$fTony Crook, Peter Rudiak-Gould 210 1$aBerlin ;$aBoston :$cDe Gruyter,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (350 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a3-11-063559-3 330 $aLow-lying Pacific island nations are experiencing the frontline of sea-level rises and climate change and are responding creatively and making-sense in their own vernacular terms. Pacific Climate Cultures aims to bring Oceanic philosophies to the frontline of social science theorization. It explores the home-grown ways that 'climate change' becomes absorbed into the combined effects of globalization and into a living nexus of relations amongst human and non-humans, spirits and elements. Contributors to this edited volume explore diverse examples of living climate change-from floods and cyclones, through song and navigation, to new forms of art, community initiatives and cultural appropriations-and demonstrate their international relevance in understanding climate change. A Prelude by His Highness Tui Atua Efi and Afterword by Anne Salmond frame an Introduction by Tony Crook & Peter Rudiak-Gould and nine chapters by contributors including John Connell, Elfriede Hermann & Wolfgang Kempf and Cecilie Rubow. Endorsement from Professor Margaret Jolly, Australian National University: This exciting volume offers innovative insights on climate cultures across Oceania. It critically interrogates Western environmental sciences which fail to fully appreciate Oceanic knowledges and practices. It reveals how climate science can be both 'a weapon of the weak' and 'an act of symbolic violence of the powerful'. A compelling series of studies in the Cook islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea and Samoa suggest not diverse cultural constructions of 'natural facts' but processes of knowledge exchange and at best a respectful reciprocity in confronting present challenges and disturbing future scenarios. 'Home-grown' Pacific discourses and ways of living emphasise the interconnections of all life on earth and in our cosmos; they do not differentiate between the natural and the moral, between environmental and cultural transformations. These studies evoke the creative agency of Oceanic peoples, too often seen as on the vanguard of victimhood in global representations of climate change, and offer distinctive visions for all humanity in these troubling times. 606 $aIndigenous peoples 615 0$aIndigenous peoples. 676 $a306.08 700 $aCrook$b Tony$0868601 702 $aRudiak-Gould$b Peter 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910629586003321 996 $aPacific Climate Cultures$91939006 997 $aUNINA