Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-175) and index.
Contents:
Papua New Guinea's response to climate change: challenges and ways forward / Nalau Bingeding. Woosh - cyclones as culturalnatural whirls: the receptions of climate change in the Cook Islands / Cecilie Rubow -- Crafting certainty in liquid worlds: encountering climate change in Kiribati / Maria Louise Bønnelykke Robertson -- A tsunami from the mountains: interpreting the Nadi Flood / Emilie Nolet -- Nothing there atoll? "Farewell to the Carteret Islands" / John Connell -- Weathering climate change in Samoa: cultural resources for resilience / Jennifer Newell -- Reflections on climate change by contemporary artists in Papua New Guinea / Marion Struck-Garbe -- Lessons from Lomani Gau Project, Fiji: a local community's response to climate change / Joeli Veitayaki, Elisabeth Holland -- Papua New Guinea's response to climate change: challenges and ways forward / Nalau Bingeding.
Summary:
Low-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. This 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'.
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