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1 online resource (265 pages) |
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Routledge Environmental Humanities |
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Routledge environmental humanities.
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Climates of history, cultures of climate; Epistemic climates; Time, representation, agency; Enduring bad faith; Notes; References; Part I: Climates of history; Chapter 1: Voices of endurance: climate and the power of oral history; Valuing oral history; Endurance; Drought 'makes who we are'; Weathering loss; Dwelling in uncertainty; Listening for change; Living with future drought; Notes; References; Chapter 2: Rethinking seasons: changing climate, changing time |
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Indigenous seasonsWestern seasons: the weather, climate, calendar nexus; The idea vs history; Climate change and the seasons; Notes; References; Chapter 3: The terrestrial envelope: Joseph Fourier's geological speculation; Introduction: poiesis of other worlds; Science studies and imagination; Fourier's demonstration; The scene of imagination; Infinite cold; Geological speculation; Notes; References; Chapter 4: Melancholy and the continent of fire; Forest Gallery, Melbourne; Emerging environmental histories; Moving through time; Climatic seasonal encounters; Melancholic environmental memorial |
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ConclusionNotes; References; Chapter 5: The Anthropocene and the long seventeenth century: 1550-1750; Early modern poetic and philosophical critique; The seventeenth century age of crisis; The Columbian Exchange; The Anthropocene; Notes; References; Part II: Climates of writing; Chapter 6: Change beyond belief: fictions of (the) Enlightenment and Simpson's 'climate change suite'; Enlightenment atmospheres of belief; Notes; References; Chapter 7: Fuels and humans, bíos and zoe; Notes; References; Chapter 8: The 'foreign grave' motif in Victorian medicine and literature; The medical debate |
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Exchanges between literature and medicineThe literary life of the foreign grave motif; Conclusion; References; Chapter 9: Climate change and literary history; What does climate mean?; Climate, climat, 'climate'; Wittgenstein's atmospheres; Climate, clima, clinamen; Writing climatic culture; Climate, race, milieu and moment; For a literary history of climate change; Notes; References; Part III: Climates of politics; Chapter 10: Climate change: politics, excess, sovereignty; Politics; Excess; Sovereignty; Conclusion; Note; References |
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Chapter 11: Para-religions of climate change: humanity, eco-nihilism, apocalypseThe Anthropocene as object of (dis)belief; Is not/il y a; Gaia revisited; The last man's party; Dark temples, sordid churches: 'new religious movements'; Moral panic, apocalypse and other bourgeois pastimes; Notes; References; Chapter 12: Litigation, activism, and the paradox of lawfulness in an age of climate change; Lawfulness and climate change litigation; Climate change direct action; Lawfulness and climate change direct action |
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Lawful excuse and necessity: legal avenues for renegotiating the norm of lawfulness |
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Print version record |
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Climatic changes -- Social aspects
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Climatic changes -- History
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Human ecology -- Cross-cultural studies
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Anthropology.
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Anthropology
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anthropology.
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Anthropology
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Climatic changes
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Climatic changes -- Social aspects
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Human ecology
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Cross-cultural studies
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Ford, Thomas H
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| ISBN |
9781317561446 |
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1317561449 |
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