Jörn Ahrens is Professor of Cultural Sociology at Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU), Germany, and Extraordinary Professor of Social Anthropology at North-West University (NWU), South Africa.Ernst Halbmayer is Professor for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Marburg, Germany, where he is also Director of the Marburg Ethnographic Collection.

• Jörn Ahrens, Ernst Halbmayer: Introduction: epistemologies of global warming in the South. The social and cultural dimension of climate change in Southern AfricaPart 1: Climate and climate change – justice epistemologies Michael Bollig: Drought, disaster and identity in northwestern Namibia in times of global climate change Michael Sheridan: When rain is a person: rainmaking, relational persons, and post-human ontologies in sub-Saharan Africa Werner Nell: Environmental attitudes and narratives in two rural South African communities: implications for intervention Patrick Bond, Mary Galvin: Conflicting narratives of extreme weather events in Durban, South Africa: politically opportunistic, experiential and climate-justice epistemologies in an extreme weather event Part 2: Climate change communication Anna Taylor, Dianne Scott: receptivity to the knowledge of others: building urban climate resilience in southern African cities Gabriel Faimau, Esther Nkhukhu-Orlando, Nelson Sello: Print media coverage and the socio-contextual Representation of climate change in Botswana"Part 3: Just Transition and international co-operation Steve Vanderheiden: Climate change equity and extreme vulnerability Matthias Rompel: Adaptation to climate change in Southern Africa: challenges for sustainable development, and the role of International co-operation