June 5th is World Environment Day! It is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations (UN) stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action. For more information please visit worldenvironmentday.global.
In joining the celebration Berghahn would like to offer a selection of Open Access titles, in addition to recommending the most recent issues of Environment and Society, Regions & Cohesion, and Nature and Culture!
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Most of our Open Access titles are also available as paperbacks!
COOLING DOWN
Local Responses to Global Climate Change
Edited by Susanna M. Hoffman, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, and Paulo Mendes
Afterword by Hans Baer
Climate change is a slowly advancing crisis sweeping over the planet and affecting different habitats in strikingly diverse ways. While nations have signed treaties and implemented policies, most actual climate change assessments, adaptations, and countermeasures take place at the local level. People are responding by adjusting their practices, livelihoods, and cultures, protesting and migrating.
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ENGAGING ENVIRONMENTS IN TONGA
Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World
Arne Aleksej Perminow
Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists
On March 11, 2011, a tsunami warning was issued for Tonga in Polynesia. On the low and small island of Kotu, people were unperturbed in the face of impending catastrophe. The book starts out from the puzzle of peoples’ responses and reactions to this warning as well as their attitudes to a gradual rise of sea level and questions why people seemed so unconcerned about this and the accompanying loss of land. The book is an ethnography of the relationship between people and their environment based on fieldwork over three decades.
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ENVIRONING EMPIRE
Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa
Martin Kalb
Environment in History: International Perspectives
For years colonists wrestled ocean waters, desert landscapes, and widespread aridity as they tried to reach inland in their effort of turning outwardly barren lands into a profitable settler colony. In his innovative environmental history, Martin Kalb outlines the development of the colony up to World War I, deconstructing the common settler narrative, all to reveal the importance of natural forces and the Kaisereich’s everyday violence.
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INDIGENOUS RESURGENCE
Decolonialization and Movements for Environmental Justice
Edited by Jaskiran Dhillon
From the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s resistance against the Dakota Access pipeline to the Nepalese Newar community’s protest of the Fast Track Road Project, Indigenous peoples around the world are standing up and speaking out against global capitalism to protect the land, water, and air.
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RISKY FUTURES
Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North
Edited by Olga Ulturgasheva and Barbara Bodenhorn
Studies in the Circumpolar North
The volume examines complex intersections of environmental conditions, geopolitical tensions and local innovative reactions characterising ‘the Arctic’ in the early twenty-first century. What happens in the region (such as permafrost thaw or methane release) not only sweeps rapidly through local ecosystems but also has profound global implications.
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SENTIENT ECOLOGIES
Xenophobic Imaginaries of Landscape
Edited by Alexandra Coțofană and Hikmet Kuran
Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
Employing methodological perspectives from the fields of political geography, environmental studies, anthropology, and their cognate disciplines, this volume explores alternative logics of sentient landscapes as racist, xenophobic, and right-wing.
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THE ANTHROPOSCENE OF WEATHER AND CLIMATE
Ethnographic Contributions to the Climate Change Debate
Edited by Paul Sillitoe
Afterword by David Shankland
“This volume will help establish a foundation for more expansive cross-disciplinary endeavors in the future…[It] will make an excellent supplementary text in several fields…Highly Recommended.”• Choice
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DELTA LIFE
Exploring Dynamic Environments where Rivers Meet the Sea
Edited by Franz Krause and Mark Harris
Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
Proposing a series of innovative steps towards better understanding human lives at the interstices of water and land, this volume includes eight ethnographies from deltas around the world. The book presents ‘delta life’ with intimate descriptions of the predicaments, imaginations and activities of delta inhabitants.
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For a full selection of our Open Access titles please visit berghahnbooks.com/open-access/books/
For a full selection of our Environmental Studies titles please visit berghahnbooks.com/browse/bysubject/environmental-studies
Berghahn Journals
Environment and Society: Advances in Research
Volume 13, Issue 1
Regions & Cohesion
Volume 13, Issue 1
Nature and Culture
Volume 18, Issue 2
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