Building the Critical Anthropology of Climate Change: Towards a Socio-Ecological Revolution [Hardcover]

IntroductionChapter 1  Climate turmoil: introducing a socioecological model of human action, environmental impact, and the mounting vulnerabilityChapter 2 Conflicting anthropological perspectives: cultural ecological, cultural interpretive, and critical anthropology of climate changeChapter 3  Anthropocene or Capitalocene: rethinking our era of climate change productionChapter 4  Social inequality and climate changeChapter 5 - Planetary health: a critical health anthropological perspectiveChapter 6 - Toward a critical anthropology of climate refugeesChapter 7  Can ecological modernization contain climate change? How the rich and powerful want to address the ecological crisisChapter 8  The elephant in the sky: why and how anthropologists need to grapple with their heavy reliance on flying in the era of climate changeChapter 9  Two genres of the climate movement: climate action vs climate justiceChapter 10  Towards a critical anthropology of the future: climate change and future scenariosChapter 11  Eco-socialism as the ultimate climate change mitigation strategy

This book applies a critical perspective to anthropogenic climate change and the global socio-ecological crisis.?It will be of interest to researchers and students studying environmental anthropology, climate change, human geography, sociology, and political science.

Hans A. Baer is Principal Honorary Research Fellow, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Merrill Singer is Professor Emeritus in Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut, USA.

This book applies a critical perspective to anthropogenic climate change and the global socio-ecological crisis.

The book focuses on the critical anthropology of climate change by opening up a dialogue with the two main contending perspectives in the field, namely the culӵ