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Environmental Transformations and Cultural Responses

Ontologies, Discourses, and Practices in Oceania

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Editors:
  1. Eveline Dürr

    1. Academic/Ed, Munich, Germany

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  2. Arno Pascht

    1. Munich, Germany

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  • Discuss environmental topics on a micro-level while also looping in discussions of globalization processes
  • Encompasses various parts of Oceania, trying to overcome a regional subdivision that is increasingly criticized by indigenous authors
  • Focuses on the local interpretation of environmental change and thus confirms local specificities

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Engaging with Environmental Transformation in Oceania

    • Arno Pascht, Eveline Dürr
    Pages 1-17

  3. Climate Change, Christian Religion and Songs: Revisiting the Noah Story in the Central Pacific

    • Wolfgang Kempf
    Pages 19-48

  4. Climate Change and Worries over Land: Articulations in the Atoll State of Kiribati

    • Elfriede Hermann
    Pages 49-73

  5. Experiencing Environmental Dynamics in Chuuk, Micronesia

    • Rebecca Hofmann
    Pages 75-101

  6. Young ni-Vanuatu Encounter Climate Change: Reception of Knowledge and New Discourses

    • Desirée Hetzel, Arno Pascht
    Pages 103-124

  7. Whose Beach, Which Nature? Coproducing Coastal Naturecultures and Erosion Control in Aotearoa New Zealand

    • Friederike Gesing
    Pages 125-156

  8. The “White Magic” of Modernity: Retracing Indigenous Environmental Knowledge in Settler-Colonialist Australia

    • Carsten Wergin
    Pages 157-185

  9. Naturally Occurring Asbestos: The Perception of Rocks in the Mountains of New Caledonia

    • Elisabeth Worliczek
    Pages 187-214

  10. Epilogue: Re-building Ships at Sea: Ontological Innovation in Action

    • Amiria Salmond
    Pages 215-226

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 227-233
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About this book

This book explores the various ways in which different communities and peoples in Oceania respond to and engage with recent environmental challenges and concurrent socio-political reconfigurations. Based on empirical research, the book discusses topics such as belonging, emotional attachment to land, and new forms of environmental knowledge. The theoretical framework of the book is inspired by current debates among diverse conceptualisations of the environment and thus, of various ways of knowing, making sense of, and interacting with worlds. With this focus in mind, the book provides new insights into recent socio-cultural and environmental dynamics in the Pacific. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Academic/Ed, Munich, Germany

    Eveline Dürr

  • Munich, Germany

    Arno Pascht

About the editors

Eveline Dürr is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany. She has worked in New Zealand, Mexico, and the US. Her research addresses environmental issues, urban inequality, and mobilities.


Arno Pascht is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany. He has worked in the Cook Islands on land tenure and chiefs today, and is currently conducting a project investigating the localizing of global climate change policies in Vanuatu.
 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Environmental Transformations and Cultural Responses

  • Book Subtitle: Ontologies, Discourses, and Practices in Oceania

  • Editors: Eveline Dürr, Arno Pascht

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53349-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-53348-7Published: 23 March 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-70971-7Published: 16 March 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-53349-4Published: 15 March 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 233

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Environmental Sociology, Environmental Policy, Ethnography

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