Climate Change Epistemologies in Southern Africa

Social and Cultural Dimensions

Jörn Ahrens, Ernst Halbmayer (University of Vienna, Austria)

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Routledge
04 October 2024

Regional studies; Development studies; Development economics; Regional geography; Environmental science, engineering & technology

Series: Routledge Studies in African Geography

This book investigates the social and cultural dimensions of climate change in Southern Africa, focusing on how knowledge about climate change is conceived and conveyed.

Despite contributing very little to the global production of emissions, the African continent looks set to be the hardest hit by climate change. Adopting a decolonial perspective, this book argues that knowledge and discourse about climate change has largely disregarded African epistemologies, leading to inequalities in knowledge systems. Only by considering regionally specific forms of conceptualizing, perceiving, and responding to climate change can these global problems be tackled. First exploring African epistemologies of climate change, the book then goes on to the social impacts of climate change, matters of climate justice, and finally institutional change and adaptation.

Providing important insights into the social and cultural perception and communication of climate change in Africa, this book will be of interest to researchers from across the fields of African studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, political science, climate change, and geography.

Edited by: Jörn Ahrens, Ernst Halbmayer (University of Vienna, Austria)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032018560
ISBN 10: 1032018569
Series: Routledge Studies in African Geography
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 04 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

"Jörn Ahrens, Ernst Halbmayer: Introduction: epistemologies of global warming in the South. The social and cultural dimension of climate change in Southern Africa Part 1: Climate and climate change – justice epistemologies Michael Bollig: Drought, disaster and identity in northwestern Namibia in times of global climate change Michael Sheridan: When rain is a person: rainmaking, relational persons, and post-human ontologies in sub-Saharan Africa Werner Nell: Environmental attitudes and narratives in two rural South African communities: implications for intervention Patrick Bond, Mary Galvin: Conflicting narratives of extreme weather events in Durban, South Africa: politically opportunistic, experiential and climate-justice epistemologies in an extreme weather event Part 2: Climate change communication Anna Taylor, Dianne Scott: receptivity to the knowledge of others: building urban climate resilience in southern African cities Gabriel Faimau, Esther Nkhukhu-Orlando, Nelson Sello: Print media coverage and the socio-contextual Representation of climate change in Botswana"" Part 3: Just Transition and international co-operation Steve Vanderheiden: Climate change equity and extreme vulnerability Matthias Rompel: Adaptation to climate change in Southern Africa: challenges for sustainable development, and the role of International co-operation"

Jörn Ahrens is Professor of Cultural Sociology at Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU), Germany, and Extraordinary Professor of Social Anthropology at North-West University (NWU), South Africa. Ernst Halbmayer is Professor for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Marburg, Germany, where he is also Director of the Marburg Ethnographic Collection.