Learning to see climate change : children’s perceptions of environmental transformation in Mongolia, Mexico, Arctic Alaska, and the United Kingdom
What are the factors that render environmental concerns salient in people’s lives, and under what conditions do people make connections between an abstract concept such as climate change and concrete experiences in their own daily circumstances? Taking as our focus ethnographic work with children in...
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ftstandrewserep:oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/20979 2023-07-02T03:30:52+02:00 Learning to see climate change : children’s perceptions of environmental transformation in Mongolia, Mexico, Arctic Alaska, and the United Kingdom Irvine, Richard Denis Gerard Bodenhorn, Barbara Lee, Elsa Amarbayasgalan, Dorj University of St Andrews. Social Anthropology 2020-11-14 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10023/20979 https://doi.org/10.1086/706606 eng eng Current Anthropology Irvine , R D G , Bodenhorn , B , Lee , E & Amarbayasgalan , D 2019 , ' Learning to see climate change : children’s perceptions of environmental transformation in Mongolia, Mexico, Arctic Alaska, and the United Kingdom ' , Current Anthropology , vol. 60 , no. 6 , pp. 723-740 . https://doi.org/10.1086/706606 0011-3204 PURE: 262739216 PURE UUID: 3c9ca965-d1cd-4bed-8eac-f44c0fc89e6f Scopus: 85075484121 WOS: 000507295300001 ORCID: /0000-0003-0468-4510/work/90112663 http://hdl.handle.net/10023/20979 https://doi.org/10.1086/706606 Copyright 2019 by The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at https://doi.org/10.1086/706606 GN Anthropology T-NDAS BDC SDG 13 - Climate Action GN Journal article 2020 ftstandrewserep https://doi.org/10.1086/706606 2023-06-13T18:27:27Z What are the factors that render environmental concerns salient in people’s lives, and under what conditions do people make connections between an abstract concept such as climate change and concrete experiences in their own daily circumstances? Taking as our focus ethnographic work with children in several different ethnographic settings (Barrow, Alaska; Oaxaca, Mexico; Tuv aimag and Uvurkhangai aimag, Mongolia; and East Anglia, United Kingdom), we explore how the children come to articulate environmental knowledge as a process of “figuring out” and the extent to which the children engage with the changing climate as a matter of concern. The paper provides an ethnographic account of the main themes that emerged in each region, before developing a comparative discussion of some key factors that gave shape to how climate change comes to matter in the lives of the children. Three dimensions are explored: the effect of climate change on livelihoods and the proximity of children’s experience to those livelihoods, the political salience of the narrative of climate change, and the temporal depth invoked by the environment. Publisher PDF Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Barrow Climate change Alaska University of St Andrews: Digital Research Repository Arctic Current Anthropology 60 6 723 740 |
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What are the factors that render environmental concerns salient in people’s lives, and under what conditions do people make connections between an abstract concept such as climate change and concrete experiences in their own daily circumstances? Taking as our focus ethnographic work with children in several different ethnographic settings (Barrow, Alaska; Oaxaca, Mexico; Tuv aimag and Uvurkhangai aimag, Mongolia; and East Anglia, United Kingdom), we explore how the children come to articulate environmental knowledge as a process of “figuring out” and the extent to which the children engage with the changing climate as a matter of concern. The paper provides an ethnographic account of the main themes that emerged in each region, before developing a comparative discussion of some key factors that gave shape to how climate change comes to matter in the lives of the children. Three dimensions are explored: the effect of climate change on livelihoods and the proximity of children’s experience to those livelihoods, the political salience of the narrative of climate change, and the temporal depth invoked by the environment. Publisher PDF Peer reviewed |
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