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Introduction: Grounding Global Climate Change,the social and cultural sciences in this field, delineating different research strands that have emerged over the past few years. Studies differ significantly according to the role assigned to the respective discipline, both within and beyond academia, as well as how they deal with the problem of un

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Ecological Novelty: Towards an Interdisciplinary Understanding of Ecological Change in the Anthropoca first part, I introduce the concept of ‘ecological novelty’ to characterise ongoing environmental change. The environmental change that brings about ecological novelty can be characterised by at least six attributes: it is (1) man-made, (2) large, (3) very fast, (4) multi-dimensional, (5) variable

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Climate and Mobility in the West African Sahel: Conceptualising the Local Dimensions of the Environmirical case studies in this field remain deeply entrenched in static push-pull frameworks and tend to reproduce simplistic causal relationships. Drawing on results from an interdisciplinary research project in Mali and Senegal, the chapter presents a methodological approach that emanates from past a

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Animal Belongings: Human-Non Human Interactions and Climate Change in the Canadian Subarcticbroader historical and economic context, this chapter shows how the mainstream discourse on anthropogenic global climate change does not necessarily latch on to people’s everyday lives. Ethnographic field work in northern Manitoba, Canada, has revealed that while one particular local resource—polar

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The Social Facts of Climate Change: An Ethnographic Approachdly refers to a scientific body of knowledge claiming universal validity. Climate change, however, is not directly perceptible; knowledge about its causes and effects has to be mediated and can only become socially relevant at particular local sites if it connects to general life experiences and cul

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You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet: A Death-Defying Look at the Future of the Climate Debatelimate discourse diverges notably from established lines of discussion in that it inspires an enthusiastic community of scientists, politicians and activists while offering no perspective for success. It uses Luhmannian systems theory to argue that the climate community shows symptoms of autopoiesis