Anthropology and Climate Change: From Encounters to Actions; Political Theory and Global Climate Change

After the 2007 United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, there can be no doubt that the earth is warming, and that humans are responsible for the change. These books offer two important contributions to the understanding and management of global climate change, from the perspective of two different disciplines: anthropology and political theory. Anthropology and climate change explores the impact of global warming on indigenous people and highlights the critical role of anthropology in this endeavour. Political theory and global climate change attempts to initiate a more effective dialogue between environmental/green political theory and mainstream political theory, which have, to date, cooperated little. The increasing engagement of anthropology with climate change takes its shape in the Anthropology and climate change. Subdivided into three parts, the book first presents an analysis of the subtle and complicated interactions between climate and local culture, then offers different accounts of the perceptions and responses of indigenous communities to global climate change, and finally shows how anthropology can make a practical contribution to addressing climate change. On the one hand, the involvement of anthropology in environmental discourses can be explained by the fact that most places directly experiencing the impact of climate change are those normally studied by anthropologists—tribal and indigenous communities, which live in a strong connection with the natural environment, often in developing countries. On the other hand, anthropology explores, in general, the processes of adaptation of human societies, their vulnerability and resilience, and has always been involved in the study of phenomena such as migrations, which can be one of the effects of climate change. A common ground of the authors in the first part (‘Climate and culture’) is the acknowledgment that climate is not the only element that shapes society: against