Global warning : an ethnography of the encounter between global and local climate-change discourses in the Bamenda Grassfields, Cameroon /

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Moving beyond existing approaches that largely deal with the biophysical consequences of climate change realities in Africa, this book explores an alternative perspective that traces climate change as a travelling idea. It focuses on how globally constructed discourses on climate change find their w...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wit, Sara de (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden, the Netherlands : African Studies Centre, [2015]
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2015.
Temas:
Climatic changes > Social aspects > Cameroon > Bamenda.
Climat > Changements > Aspect social > Cameroun > Bamenda.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Climatic changes > Social aspects.
Cameroon > Bamenda.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Theoretical and methodological considerations
  • Talking climate change into existence : the role of NGOs in disseminating the green message
  • Translating the climate back and forth : traditional rulers in the fight against climate change
  • Believing in climate change : a grassroots perspective
  • Concluding reflections.

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