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oapen-20.500.12657-630722024-03-28T08:18:51Z Climate Change Epistemologies in Southern Africa Ahrens, Jörn Halbmayer, Ernst africa;climate;climate change;climate justice;decolonial;epistemologies;political science;sociology;south africa thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNP Pollution and threats to the environment::RNPG Climate change 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. 2023-05-23T13:51:00Z 2023-05-23T13:51:00Z 2023 book 9781032018560 9781032018522 9781003180814 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63072 eng Routledge Studies in African Geography application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781000902365.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003180814 10.4324/9781003180814 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781032018560 9781032018522 9781003180814 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Routledge 228 Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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.
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