Indigenous Perceptions of the End of the World
Creating a Cosmopolitics of Change
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Beschreibung
This edited volume constructs a ‘cosmopolitics’ of climate change, consulting small-scale sustainable communities on whether the world is ending and why, and how we can take action to prevent it. By comparing scientific and indigenous accounts of the same phenomenon, contributors seek to broaden Western understandings of what climate change constitutes. In this context, existing cosmologies are challenged, opening spaces for hegemonic narratives to enter into conversation with the non-modern and construct ‘worlds otherwise’—situations of world change and renewal through climate change. Bold brings together perspectives from Central America, Mexico, the Amazon, and the Andes to converse with scientific narratives of climate change and create cracks that bring new worlds into being for readers.
The chapter “Fragile Time: The Redemptive Force of the Urarina Apocalypse” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
This edited volume constructs a ‘cosmopolitics’ of climate change, consulting small-scale sustainable communities on whether the world is ending and why, and how we can take action to prevent it. By comparing scientific and indigenous accounts of the same phenomenon, contributors seek to broaden Western understandings of what climate change constitutes. In this context, existing cosmologies are challenged, opening spaces for hegemonic narratives to enter into conversation with the non-modern and construct ‘worlds otherwise’—situations of world change and renewal through climate change. Bold brings together perspectives from Central America, Mexico, the Amazon, and the Andes to converse with scientific narratives of climate change and create cracks that bring new worlds into being for readers.
One of the first volumes to seriously consider indigenous perspectives on climate change alongside scientific narratives Collects indigenous Latin American perspectives on climate change, consumption, cultural change, causality and nature and culture Provides a space to move away from modernity as a totalizing explanation of the world to explore new potentials after climate change
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Rosalyn Bold
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Anthropocene ontological perspectives indigenous peoples non-modern people catastrophe apocalypse modernity climate change urban migrants capitalism