A Political Ecology of “Water in Mind”
Attributing Perceptions in the Era of Global Climate Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22331702 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan A Crate (0000-0003-2127-4812, George Mason University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 148-164 |
| Publication date | 2011-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Weather, Climate, and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1948-8327 • E-ISSN: 1948-8335 |
| Publisher | American Meteorological Society (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1175/wcas-d-10-05006.1 |
| OpenAlex | W2042633634 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 41 |
This article explores how researchers can apply social science methods and theoretical frames to capture how place-based communities are perceiving and responding to the immediate effects of global climate change. The study focuses on research with Viliui Sakha—native horse and cattle breeders of northeastern Siberia, Russia, who are increasingly challenged by one of global climate change’s most prevalent effects: altered water regimes. By applying the theoretical framework of political ecology, the article shows how researchers can better understand how affected peoples have, in this case, “water in mind” via their histories, cosmologies, and management practices of water. Such awareness can inform research activities and findings, facilitate effective adaptation, and, ultimately, affect policy. Given the widespread emphasis on adaptation, including the urgent need for, increasing interest in, and funding support for transdisciplinary research projects on adaptation, and the facilitative role researchers and policymakers can play in adaptation, this move to understanding and integrating a population’s shifting perceptions—in this case, of water in mind—into research is fundamental
Biology · Climate change · Climate change adaptation · Environmental ethics · Environmental resource management · Global warming · Perception · Political ecology · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Environmental Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Psychology · Ecology
We Have Never Seen These Things in Our Entire Lives
From Living Water to the “Water of Death”
Introduction to Special Issue
Water Resources and Sustainable Water Management
Making sense of climate change
The Cultural Theory of Risk for Climate Change Adaptation
The Role of Traditional Knowledge in Building Adaptive Capacity for Climate Change
Climates of ontological change
Using Cultural Framings to Disentangle Viliui Sakha Perceptions, Beliefs, and Historical Trauma in the Face of Climate Change
International trends in public perceptions of climate change over the past quarter century
Including indigenous knowledge and experience in IPCC assessment reports
Permafrost livelihoods
Multiplicity of Ontologies
Slippery Entanglements
The economic anthropology of water
Darkening Peaks
Water, Culture, and Power
Siku: Knowing Our Ice
Increasing River Discharge to the Arctic Ocean
Power, knowledge and political ecology in the third world
Third World Political Ecology
Cultural Models in Language and Thought
Political Ecology Across Spaces, Scales, and Social Groups
The Invention Of Tradition
Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change
Locating the Political in Political Ecology
Regional Assessment of GCM-Simulated Current Climate over Northern Canada
Co-option in Siberia
The Great Divide
Normalizing adaptation
Equity and justice in climate change adaptation amongst natural-resource-dependent societies
Environmental Values
Siberian Survival
Epilogue
The time and place for political ecology
There and back again
A Beautiful Soaking Rain
Introduction
Culture, Climate and the Environment
Fluidscapes
Ohuokhai
The Struggle for Water
Globalization, Water, and Health
Siberian Survival
Distinguished Lecture
Elder Knowledge and Sustainable Livelihoods in Post-Soviet Russia
Local Knowledge in the Environment-Development Discourse
Gone the Bull of Winter
After Nature
Against Political Ecology
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,15 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |