Learning to See Climate Change
Children’s Perceptions of Environmental Transformation in Mongolia, Mexico, Arctic Alaska, and the United Kingdom
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2227284 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard D G Irvine (0000-0003-0468-4510, University of Cambridge), Barbara Bodenhorn (0000-0002-1704-0450, University of Cambridge), Elsa Lee (0000-0003-0005-743X, University of Cambridge), D Amarbayasgalan (University of Cambridge) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 723-740 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/706606 |
| OpenAlex | W2983954424 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 67 |
What are the factors that render environmental concerns salient in people's lives, and under what conditions do people make connections between an abstract concept such as climate change and concrete experiences in their own daily circumstances? Taking as our focus ethnographic work with children in several different ethnographic settings (Barrow, Alaska; Oaxaca, Mexico; Tuv aimag and Uvurkhangai aimag, Mongolia; and East Anglia, United Kingdom), we explore how the children come to articulate environmental knowledge as a process of "figuring out" and the extent to which the children engage with the changing climate as a matter of concern. The paper provides an ethnographic account of the main themes that emerged in each region, before developing a comparative discussion of some key factors that gave shape to how climate change comes to matter in the lives of the children. Three dimensions are explored: the effect of climate change on livelihoods and the proximity of children's experience to those livelihoods, the political salience of the narrative of climate change, and the temporal depth invoked by the environment
Agriculture · Climate change · Ethnography · Geography · Livelihood · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Salience (neuroscience · Salient · Sociology · Anthropology · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Ecology · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Psychology · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
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The Eskimo and the oil man
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Beyond individual behaviour change
Normalizing catastrophe
Promiscuous corroboration and climate change translation
Riders under storms
The diluted working classes of rural England and Wales
Climate change and anthropology
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On Postmodernism and Articulation
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Nationalism and Hybridity in Mongolia
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Exclusion and reappropriation
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Expecting the Unexpected
Anthropocene East Anglia
Children's Places
Situated Learning
Vibrant Matter
Class Politics, Cultural Politics
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |