Climate Histories: Communicating Cultural Knolwedge of Environmental Change
A 12-month Network funded by the AHRC through the Arts and Humanities Approaches to Researching Environmental Change Networks competition
This Network speaks to the theme of Histories of Environmental Change by asking how people around the world perceive, narrate, and frame changes in their environment and climate. How can such accounts be gathered methodologically and what challenges does their interpretation raise? It aims to make a major contribution to academic debates on environmental change, by making a cross-cultural explanation of the ways in which environmental knowledge practices, apprehensions of risk in terms of future-oriented strategies and decision-making processes are informed by understanding of past process. The Network has 4 main themes:
1) methodological challenges
2) perceiving change over time
3) nodes of communication/miscommunication
4) towards an anthropology of the future and interdisciplinary climate research
http://climatehistories.innerasiaresearch.org