What Does the Situation Say? Theorizing Multiple Understandings of Climate Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2263858 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Schnegg (0000-0001-9240-8836, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 194-215 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-2131 • E-ISSN: 1548-1352 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/etho.12307 |
| OpenAlex | W3198517219 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 57 |
Our ways of knowing the weather are transforming. Climate change modifies weather patterns, and the globalization of scientific knowledge promotes new ways of making the weather intelligible. Following both transformations, I explore how Damara pastoralists (ǂNūkhoen) in Namibia entertain various Indigenous, religious, political, and scientific explanations for the most distressing weather-related phenomenon they experience-the lack of rain. Integrating qualitative and quantitative data, my ethnography reveals how people combine knowledge from multiple, even contradictory, registers to explain one situation, and use a different combination of sources to explain another. To understand this, I develop a phenomenological framework that shows how being-in-the-world creates a phenomenon situationally. If phenomena differ depending on how we enact the world, it is unsurprising that these phenomena would then entail different explanations. With this, I theorize why people make sense of climate change in multiple ways, and why they move between them
Climate science · Phenomenon · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
Phenomenological Approaches in Anthropology
The World Multiple
“Prophecy from the Past”
How Things Shape the Mind
Indigenous climate knowledge in southern Uganda
Die Lokalisierung des Klimawandels auf den Philippinen
Things As They Are
“We Have Seen It with Our Own Eyes”
Why Analyze Mental Models of Local Climate Change? A Case from Southern Mozambique
Progress, decline, and the public uptake of climate science
Philosophische Untersuchungen
Beyond ‘Khoisan’
It’s Our Fault
Lost in Translation
Global Warming in Local Discourses
Glaciers and Climate Change
A Methodological Model for Exchanging Local and Scientific Climate Change Knowledge in Northeastern Siberia
Anthropological contributions to the study of climate
Thinking like a climate
Talking about the Weather
Climate change and anthropology
Multiplicity of Ontologies
Subsidized elephants
Science, Knowledge and Belief. On Local Understandings of Weather and Climate Change in Amazonia
Exploring multiple ontologies of drought in agro‐pastoral regions of N orthern T anzania
The Construction of Global Warming and the Politics of Science
Challenges for Anthropology in the 'African Renaissance
Multisited Ethnography
Risk and Governance Part I
Indigenous Knowledge' and 'Science
The Decline of Marriage in Namibia
The political ontology of climate change
Dismantling the Divide Between Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge
Perceiving the Environment in Finnish Lapland
Class-Switching
Victims or Masters of Adaptation? How the Idea of Adaptation to Climate Change Travels Up and Down to a Village in Simanjiro, Maasailand Northern Tanzania
The Body Multiple
Situated Knowledges
The Perception of the Environment
Eleven Namibian rains
Historicity and Anthropology
The Relevance of Husserl's Theory to Language Socialization
Footprints through the weather-world
Ontologies of climate change
The Life of Winds
Climate Change and Accusation
Climatic and Ontological Change in the Anthropocene among the Makushi in Guyana
Introduction
Rethinking the animate, re-animating thought
The Influence of Science Communication on Indigenous Climate Change Perception
| Citations per year | 2.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |