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Environmental Futures Special Issue of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 22, 2016 Concerns about the exploitation of limited resources, optimum development trajectories, and climate change draw attention to the temporal horizons of our environment. Environmental Futures is a curated collection of essays that explores different ways of knowing the future and how these futures shape contemporary social worlds. Encompassing a range of detailed case studies, from ice melting in Antarctica to coal mining in Bangladesh, flooding in Colombia to climate modelling in Egypt, the collection approaches prognosis as a cultural, political, and material process. Through rich ethnography, the papers reveal the ways in which authority and expertise may be reinforced, circumscribed, or contested in the process of making a prediction and its aftermath. Speaking to a matter of topical concern, and to important current debates within anthropology on the production of knowledge and society-environment interactions. Environmental Futures offers novel insights on how and why futures come to be significant in the present. Book jacket

Author

Jessica Barnes; Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

Publisher

Wiley & Sons, Limited, John

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781119278320