Environmental transformations and cultural responses : ontologies, discourses, and practices in Oceania

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Environmental transformations and cultural responses : ontologies, discourses, and practices in Oceania

Eveline Dürr, Arno Pascht, editors

Palgrave Macmillan, c2022

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"(c)The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017, First softcover printing 2022"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book explores the various ways in which different communities and peoples in Oceania respond to and engage with recent environmental challenges and concurrent socio-political reconfigurations. Based on empirical research, the book discusses topics such as belonging, emotional attachment to land, and new forms of environmental knowledge. The theoretical framework of the book is inspired by current debates among diverse conceptualisations of the environment and thus, of various ways of knowing, making sense of, and interacting with worlds. With this focus in mind, the book provides new insights into recent socio-cultural and environmental dynamics in the Pacific.

Table of Contents

1. Engaging with Environmental Transformations in Oceania 2. Climate Change, Christian Religion and Songs: Revisiting the Noah Story in the Central Pacific 3. Climate Change and Worries over Land: Articulations in the Atoll State of Kiribati 4. Experiencing Environmental Dynamics in Chuuk, Micronesia 5. Young ni-Vanuatu Reception of Knowledge of Climate Change 6. Whose Beach, Which Nature? Coproducing Coastal Naturecultures and Erosion Control in Aotearoa New Zealand 7. The "White Magic" of Modernity: Retracing Indigenous Environmental Knowledge in Settler-Colonialist Australia 8. Naturally Occurring Asbestos and Perceptions of Rocks in the Mountains of New Caledonia 9. Epilogue: Re-building Ships at Sea: Ontological Innovation in Action

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  • NCID
    BC16533983
  • ISBN
    • 9781349709717
  • LCCN
    2017930590
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    enggil
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiv, 233 p.
  • Size
    21 cm
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