Migration and climate change from prehistoric cultures to contemporary management in organizations /

This book aims to provide a better understanding of how human cultures interact with climate change over an extended period of time. It is an analysis of the past and present, ranging from the first human migration to contemporary organizational management using an approach developed by Michel Fouca...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alaktif, Jamila
Otros Autores: Callens, Stéphane
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Hoboken : ISTE, Ltd. ; Wiley, 2020.
Temas:
Paleoclimatology.
Human beings > Effect of climate on.
Emigration and immigration > Environmental aspects.
Paléoclimatologie.
Êtres humains > Influence du climat.
Émigration et immigration > Aspect de l'environnement.
Emigration and immigration > Environmental aspects
Human beings > Effect of climate on
Paleoclimatology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half-Title Page
  • Dedication
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • A Global History of Interactions between Climates and Cultures
  • 1.1. Human diversity and climate
  • 1.1.1. A summary chronology
  • 1.1.2. Climate and cultural diversity
  • 1.1.3. Paleolithic climate and cultures
  • 1.1.4. Climate theories
  • 1.2. Effects of climate change on cultural and spiritual transformations
  • 1.2.1. Climatic and axial periods
  • 1.2.2. Climate theologies
  • 1.3. Cultural and spiritual transformations: a methodology from Michel Foucault's work
  • 1.3.1. Between human cultures and spiritual art, the case of the Lascaux cave
  • 1.3.2. Spirituality, an element of Foucault's work
  • 1.3.3. Body paintings
  • 1.3.4. The mystic, the ascetic and the climate
  • 1.3.5. Politics and spirituality
  • 1.4. The major role of intermediary structures: organizations in large-scale climate changes
  • 1.5. Overview of the book
  • PART 1: The First Cultures in a Context of High Climate Instability
  • 1. Migration and Creativity: What Roles do They Play During Climate Change?
  • 1.1. A necessary evil
  • 1.1.1. The methodological challenge of a global history
  • 1.1.2. Denial or a mandate from heaven
  • 1.2. Cultures and climatic gradient
  • 1.3. The conquest of ubiquity
  • 1.4. Migration: capacity or necessity?
  • 1.4.1. H. ergaster's African exits
  • 1.4.2. The African exits of anatomically modern humans
  • 1.5. The oboes of the Swabian Jura
  • 1.5.1. Climate change and the birth of the arts
  • 1.5.2. European cultures of the Upper Paleolithic and Heinrich events
  • 1.6. Discussion
  • 2. Living with the Extreme
  • 2.1. The example of super-flooding
  • 2.2. In search of a new interpretative framework
  • 2.3. Extreme measurements
  • 2.3.1. Laughter: characterizing risk in climate change?
  • 2.3.2. Ecstasy
  • 2.3.3. Sacrifice
  • 2.3.4. Communication
  • 2.4. The first GLOF cultures
  • 2.4.1. The "bathymetry" of myths and tales
  • 2.4.2. Some examples of cultures associated with GLOFs
  • 2.4.3. The severity of the floods and their cultural translation
  • 2.4.4. The objectification of ice sheet GLOFs
  • 2.5. The first cultural groups of anatomically modern humans and climate change
  • 2.6. The problem of Apollo's birth
  • 2.7. The constitution of dragons, gods and humans in the myths of the flooding of hydraulic civilizations
  • 2.8. Discussion
  • 3. The Great Historical Transitions of Climate Cultures
  • 3.1. Historical human cultures, between fiction and knowledge of natural risks
  • 3.2. Water, a historical problem, from Mesoamerica to Africa
  • 3.2.1. Human cultures facing floods
  • 3.2.2. "Dragon" myths
  • 3.3. Human diversity and taiga shamanism
  • 3.3.1. Contemporary shamanism, a look at Eros and Askêsis
  • 3.3.2. Paleolithic cultures according to climate change
  • 3.4. Spiritual corporalities of body paintings
  • 3.5. Myths linked to the problem of water: first texts and first empires
  • 3.5.1. The Superwise

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