Indigenous Perceptions of the End of the World
Creating a Cosmopolitics of Change
Editors: Bold, Rosalyn (Ed.)
Free Preview- One of the first volumes to seriously consider indigenous perspectives on climate change alongside scientific narratives
- Collects indigenous Latin American perspectives on climate change, consumption, cultural change, causality and nature and culture
- Provides a space to move away from modernity as a totalizing explanation of the world to explore new potentials after climate change
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- About this book
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This edited volume constructs a ‘cosmopolitics’ of climate change, consulting small-scale sustainable communities on whether the world is ending and why, and how we can take action to prevent it. By comparing scientific and indigenous accounts of the same phenomenon, contributors seek to broaden Western understandings of what climate change constitutes. In this context, existing cosmologies are challenged, opening spaces for hegemonic narratives to enter into conversation with the non-modern and construct ‘worlds otherwise’—situations of world change and renewal through climate change. Bold brings together perspectives from Central America, Mexico, the Amazon, and the Andes to converse with scientific narratives of climate change and create cracks that bring new worlds into being for readers.
- About the authors
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Rosalyn Bold is a Research Associate in the Centre for the Anthropology of Sustainability at University College London, UK.
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Introduction: Creating a Cosmopolitics of Climate Change
Pages 1-27
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Broken Pillars of the Sky: Masewal Actions and Reflections on Modernity, Spirits, and a Damaged World
Pages 29-49
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Fragile Time: The Redemptive Force of the Urarina Apocalypse
Pages 51-69
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The End of Days: Climate Change, Mythistory, and Cosmological Notions of Regeneration
Pages 71-90
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Contamination, Climate Change, and Cosmopolitical Resonance in Kaata, Bolivia
Pages 91-113
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Indigenous Perceptions of the End of the World
- Book Subtitle
- Creating a Cosmopolitics of Change
- Editors
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- Rosalyn Bold
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-13860-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-13860-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-13859-2
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIV, 216
- Number of Illustrations
- 2 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
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