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March 29, 2012Current AnthropologyOpen Access

Communicating Climate Knowledge

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HDHildegard DiembergerKHKirsten HastrupSSSimon Schaffer

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Overview

Interdisciplinary review reveals that climate knowledge emerges from diverse networks and scientific proxies, suggesting that climate action depends on cross-disciplinary communication.

Key Points

  • Examine how cultural and historical perspectives on environmental change are constructed and communicated across academic disciplines through the concepts of agents and proxies.
  • Synthesized interdisciplinary discussions from a 2011 conference on climate histories held in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
  • Integrated foundational essays from anthropology and the history of science with five ethnographic commentaries and cross-disciplinary scholar responses.
  • Climate change operates not as a single preformed problem, but as plural knowledges shaped by specific social networks and agencies.
  • Scientific and natural proxies—such as ice, mountains, and human informants—act as dynamic agents when positioned within interdisciplinary networks.

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Diemberger et al. (2012) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a92d4a98dbb7bc5d5a286cdhttps://doi.org/10.1086/665033
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