Building the Critical Anthropology of Climate Change

Hans A. Baer is Principal Honorary Research Fellow, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia. Merrill Singer is Professor Emeritus in Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut, USA.

• Introduction Chapter 1 – Climate turmoil: introducing a socioecological model of human action, environmental impact, and the mounting vulnerability Chapter 2 –Conflicting anthropological perspectives: cultural ecological, cultural interpretive, and critical anthropology of climate change Chapter 3 – Anthropocene or Capitalocene: rethinking our era of climate change production Chapter 4 – Social inequality and climate change Chapter 5 - Planetary health: a critical health anthropological perspective Chapter 6 - Toward a critical anthropology of climate refugees Chapter 7 – Can ecological modernization contain climate change? How the rich and powerful want to address the ecological crisis Chapter 8 – The elephant in the sky: why and how anthropologists need to grapple with their heavy reliance on flying in the era of climate change Chapter 9 – Two genres of the climate movement: climate action vs climate justice Chapter 10 – Towards a critical anthropology of the future: climate change and future scenarios Chapter 11 – Eco-socialism as the ultimate climate change mitigation strategy