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Global Warning. An ethnography of the encounter between global and local /

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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Wit, Sara de (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Leiden, the Netherlands : African Studies Centre, [2015]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.