CHto mozhet poshatnut ustoi blagopoluchnoy i na pervyy vzglyad krepkoy semi? Est dostatok vyshe srednego, est vzroslye i krasivye deti, kotorymi mozhno gorditsya, est starinnyy drug, takie seychas vse rezhe vstrechayutsya on vsegda podderzhit, ne predast. I vdrug odnazhdy iz ogromnogo, dorogogo, zabitogo blagopoluchiem shkafa vypolz skelet. Ego tschatelno pryatali, o nem davno zabyli, a on vypolz i nachal dirizhirovat sudbami. Esche nikto ne ponimaet, chto navislo nad nimi, a treschina mezhdu tem v semeynoy lodke uvelichivaetsya, grozya utopit vseh passazhirov. I deti vdrug stali drugimi, otdalilis, ozlobilis. A mozhet byt, oni vsego lish otrazhenie ottsa s materyu? Tak byvaet, esli spryatal skelet bud gotov, chto on odnazhdy izmenit tvoyu zhizn, esli ne unichtozhit.

Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Foundation. Among his recent books areOverheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change (Pluto Press, 2016), and the co-edited, with Astrid Stensrud,Climate, Capitalism and Communities (Pluto Press, 2019).

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements

Introduction: Scaling Down in Order to Cool DownThomas Hylland Eriksen and Paulo Mendes

Part I: Ways of Knowing

Chapter 1. Environmental Pluralism: Knowing the Namibian Weather in Times of Climate ChangeMichael Schnegg

Chapter 2. How a Storm Feels: Storying Climate Change in the Eastern HimalayasAlex Aisher

Chapter 3. Who is Perturbed by Perturbations? Marine Scientists and Polynesian Fishers Understandings of a Crown-of-Thorns Starfish OutbreakMatthew Lauer, Terava Atger, Sally J. Holbrook, Andrew Rassweiler, Russell J. Schmitt, and Jean Wencelius

Chapter 4. Urban Transformations in the Hydric Landscapes of Belém (PA): Environmental Memories and Urban FloodPedro Paulo de Miranda Araujo Soares

Part II: Situations and Decisions

Chapter 5. Climate Change and Mitigation in Bangladesh: Vulnerability in Urban LocationsTasneem Siddiqui, Mohammad Jalal Uddin Sikder and Mohammad Rashed Alam Bhuiyan

Chapter 6. Localizing Climate Change: Confronting Over-simplification of Local ResponsesBrian Orland, Meredith Welch-Devine, and Micah Taylor

Chapter 7. 'The Times They Are a-Changin' but 'The Song Remains The Same': Climate Change Narratives from the Coromandel Peninsula, Aotearoa New ZealandPaul Schneider and Bruce Glavovic

Chapter 8. Climate Change and East Africa's Past: Three Cautionary TalesA. Peter Castro

Chapter 9. Our Existence is Literally Melting Away: Narrative and Fighting Climate Change in a Glacier Ski Resort in AustriaHerta Nobauer

Part III: Politics, Policies, and Contestation

Chapter 10. Where Floods Are Allowed: Climate Adaptation as Defiant Acceptance in the Elbe River ValleyKristoffer Albris

Chapter 11. Climate Resilience Through Equity and Justice: Holistic Leadership by Tribal Nations and Indigenous Communities in the Southwest United StatesJulie Maldonado and Beth Rose Middleton

Chapter 12. The Return of What Has Not Been Gone: A View of Animal Presence in Future NaturesGuilherme José da Silva e Sá

Chapter 13. Emitting Inequity: The Socio-Political Life of Anthropogenic Climate Change in Oaxaca, MexicoRoberto E. Barrios and Amanda Leppert

Chapter 14. Disaster and Climate ChangeSusanna M. Hoffman

Afterword: Toward Eco-Socialism as a Global and Local Strategy to Cool Down the World-SystemHans A. Baer

Index