Climates and Cultures

VOLUME ONE: CULTURES OF CLIMATE KNOWLEDGE The Classification of Climates from Pythagoras to Koeppen - Marie Sanderson The Definition of the Standard WMO Climate Normal - Antony Arguez and Russell Vose Linguistic Dimensions of Weather and Climate Perception - Alan Stewart Meteorological Knowledge and Environmental Ideas in Traditional and Modern Societies: The Case of Tibet - Toni Huber and Poul Pedersen Glaciers and Climate Change: Perspectives from Oral Tradition - Julie Cruikshank The Anxieties of a Science Diplomat: Field Coproduction of Climate Knowledge and the Rise and Fall of Hans Ahlman's 'Polar Warming' - Sverker Soerlin Representing the Global Atmosphere: Computer Models, Data and Knowledge about Climate Change - Paul Edwards Verification, Validation and Confirmation of Numerical Models in the Earth Sciences - Naomi Oreskes, Kristin Shrader-Frechette and Kenneth Belitz Anticipating Nature: The Productive Uncertainty of Climate Models - Kirsten Hastrup The Global Warming of Climate Science: Climategate and the Construction of Scientific Facts - Marianne Ryghaug and Tomas Skjolsvold Anatomy of Dissent: A Cultural Analysis of Climate Skepticism - Myanna Lahsen Sila Dialogues on Climate Change: Inuit Wisdom for a Cross-Cultural Interdisciplinarity - Timothy Leduc Indigenous Climate Knowledge in Southern Uganda: The Multiple Components of a Dynamic Regional System - Ben Orlove, Carla Roncoli, Merit Kabugo and Abushen Majigu Culture, Law, Risk and Governance: Contexts of Traditional Knowledge in Climate Change Adaptation - Terry Williams and Preston Hardison 'We Have Seen It with Our Own Eyes': Why We Disagree about Climate Change Visibility - Peter Rudiak-Gould VOLUME TWO: HISTORICAL READINGS OF CLIMATE Chinese Attitudes towards Climate - Cho-yun Hsu The Meteorological Framework and the Cultural Memory of Three Severe Winter-Storms in Early Eighteenth Century Europe - Christian Pfister, Emmanuel Garnier, Maria-Joao Alcoforado, Dennis Wheeler, Juerg Luterbacher, Maria Nunes and Joao Taborda Time, Talk and the Weather in Eighteenth-Century Britain - Jan Golinski Climates as Commodities: Jean Pierre Purry and the Modelling of the Best Climate on Earth - Vladimir Jankovic Inventing Caribbean Climates: How Science, Medicine, and Tourism Changed Tropical Weather from Deadly to Healthy - Mark Carey Seeing Climate through Culture - Lawrence Culver Perceiving, Explaining and Observing Climatic Changes: An Historical Case Study of the 'Year without Summer' 1816 - Tom Bodenmann, Stefan Broennimann, Gertrude Hadorn, Tobias Krueger and Helmut Weissert 'The Languor of the Hot Weather': Everyday Perspectives on Weather and Climate in Colonial Bombay, 1819-1828 - George Adamson Drought, Desiccation and Discourse: Missionary Correspondence and Nineteenth-Century Climate Change in Central Southern Africa - Georgina Endfield and David Nash Tropical Climate and Moral Hygiene: The Anatomy of a Victorian Debate - David Livingstone The Perfectionists and the Weather: The Oneida Community's Quest for Meteorological Utopia 1848-1879 - William Meyer Modernity's Frail Climate: A Climate History of Environmental Reflexivity - Fabien Locher and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz The Debate over Climate Change in the Steppe Region in Nineteenth-Century Russia - David Moon Is Global Culture Warming Up? - Andrew Ross VOLUME THREE: CLIMATE AND AGENCY Change in the Weather - Vladimir Jankovic Domain of the Gods: An Editorial Essay - Simon Donner Climatic Change and Witch-Hunting: The Impact of the Little Ice Age on Mentalities - Wolfgang Behringer An Amazing and Portentous Summer: Environmental and Social Responses in Britain to the 1783 Eruption of an Iceland Volcano - John Grattan and Mark Brayshay The Climate Engineers - James Fleming Huntington and Lovelock: Climatic Determinism in the 20th Century - Kent McGregor Climate, Race Science and the Age of Consent in the League of Nations - Ashwini Tambe Human Agency, Climate Change and Culture: An Archaeological Perspective - Fekri Hassan Human Adaptation to Climate Change: A Review of Three Historical Cases and Some General Perspectives - Ben Orlove Temporality and the Problem with Singling Out Climate as a Current Driver of Change in a Small West African Village - Jonas Nielsen and Anette Reenberg Climate Change and Conflict - Ragnhild Nordas and Nils Petter Gleditsch The First Climate Refugees? Contesting Global Narratives of Climate Change in Tuvalu - Carol Farbotko and Heather Lazrus Are Cultures Endangered by Climate Change? Yes, But ... - Sarah Strauss Trust and Climate - Nico Stehr VOLUME FOUR: CLIMATE AND CULTURE IN PLACES AND PRACTICES A New Climate for Society - Sheila Jasanoff Earth, Sky, Wind, and Weather - Tim Ingold Making Sense of the Weather: Dwelling and Weathering on Canada's Rain Coast - Phillip Vannini, Dennis Waskul, Simon Gottschalk and Toby Ellis-Newstead Emotional Climates: Ritual, Seasonality and Affective Disorders - Simon Harrison Seasonal Climate Change and the Indoor City Worker - Russell Hitchings Why Indoor Climates Change: A Case Study - William Meyer Reculturing and Particularising Climate Discourses: Weather, Identity and the Work of Gordon Manley - Georgina Endfield Climate and Culture Connections in Australia - Neville Nicholls An Australian Feeling for Snow: Towards Understanding Cultural and Emotional Dimensions of Climate Change - Andrew Gorman-Murray Whether Rain or Shine: Weather Regimes from a New Guinea Perspective - Paul Sillitoe Seasons in the Sun - Weather and Climate Front-Page News Stories in Europe's Rainiest City, Bergen, Norway - Elisabeth Meze-Hausken Localizing Climate Change: A Multi-Sited Approach - Werner Krauss Progress, Decline and the Public Uptake of Climate Science - Peter Rudiak-Gould Bare Rocks and Fallen Angels: Environmental Change, Climate Perceptions and Ritual Practice in the Peruvian Andes - Karsten Paerregaard Human Geographies of Climate Change: Landscape, Temporality, and Lay Knowledges - Catherine Brace and Hilary Geoghegan VOLUME FIVE: CULTURAL READINGS OF FUTURE CLIMATE Improving Forecast Communication: Linguistic and Cultural Considerations - Karen Pennesi "People Want to Protect Themselves a Little Bit": Emotions, Denial and Social Movement Nonparticipation - Kari Norgaard Commodifying the Atmosphere: 'Pennies from Heaven'? - John Thornes and Samuel Randalls The Right to Keep Cold - Neil Adger The End of Model Democracy? An Editorial Comment - Reto Knutti Democracy, Climate Change and Global Governance: Democratic Agency and the Policy Menu Ahead - David Held and Angus Hervey Tipping Points and the Human World: Living with Change and Thinking about the Future - Mark Nuttall Google Warming: Google Earth as Eco-Machinima - Leon Gurevitch The Flood Myth in the Age of Global Climate Change - Michael Salvador and Todd Norton Climate Change and Apocalyptic Faith - Stefan Skrimshire The Unbearable Lightness of Green: Air Travel, Climate Change and Literature - Greg Garrard Reading and Writing the Weather: Climate Technics and the Moment of Responsibility - Bronislaw Szerszynski Metaphors We Die By? Geoengineering, Metaphors and the Argument from Catastrophe - Brigitte Nerlich and Rusi Jaspal Geoengineering, Theology and the Meaning of Being Human - Forrest Clingerman Reducing the Future to Climate: A Story of Climate Determinism and Reductionism - Mike Hulme VOLUME SIX: CLIMATE CHANGE IN LITERARY, VISUAL AND PERFORMANCE CULTURES A Change in the Climate: New Interpretations and Perceptions of Climate Change through Artistic Interventions and Representations - Lesley Duxbury Arts, Sciences and Climate Change: Practices and Politics at the Threshold - Jennifer Gabrys and Kathryn Yusoff 'Telling a Different Tale': Literary, Historical and Meteorological Reading of a Norfolk Heatwave - Mike Hulme Picturing Climate Change - Stefan Broennimann Picturing the Clima(c)tic: Greenpeace and the Representational Politics of Climate Change Communication - Julie Doyle Seeing Climate Change: The Visual Construction of Global Warming in Canadian National Print Media - Darryn DiFrancesco and Nathan Young Imaging Vulnerability: The Iconography of Climate Change - Kate Manzo Climate Change in Literature and Literary Criticism - Adam Trexler and Adeline Johns-Putra Solar: Apocalypse Not - Greg Garrard Melting Ice and the Paradoxes of Zeno: Didactic Impulses and Aesthetic Distanciation in German Climate Change Fiction - Axel Goodbody Cultural Climatology and the Representation of Sky, Atmosphere, Weather and Climate in Selected Art Works of Constable, Monet and Eliasson - John Thornes "There's a Storm Coming!": Reading the Threat of Climate Change in Jeff Nichols's Take Shelter - Agnes Woolley Myth and Multiple Readings in Environmental Rhetoric: The Case of An Inconvenient Truth - Thomas Rosteck and Thomas Frentz Climate Change 'Science' on the London Stage - Stephen Bottoms Representing Nature: Art and Climate Change - Malcolm Miles