Climate and Culture

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The “cultural turn” of climate history: An emerging field for studies of China and East Asia

Williamson

2020

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The last few years have seen a surge of scholarly interest in how cultures have been influenced by climate, climatic changes, and extremes of weather. This “cultural turn” of climate history draws from the archives of society, rather than the archives of nature, and is heavily influenced by interpretative and methodological frameworks drawn from the humanities fields. Attention has been largely focused on European contexts and cultures. This article aims to show, however, that the climate history of Asia is on the cusp of developing its own strong cultural turn and that strong foundations and precedents have already been set. This article has two main objectives. The first is to explore approaches in the history of the climate in East Asia that claim to investigate interactions between climatic changes or extreme events and society and culture. Many of these are macro studies, comparing climatic changes with dramatic events in history. Then, it will take a closer look at scholarship that has focused closely on the ideas and beliefs that characterize a society, showing how regional customs and philosophical systems have developed in relation to weather. It will argue that better integration between the two approaches is needed if we are to fully grasp the interdependence of people and climate, a question that becomes ever more critical as we move further into the Anthropocene. This article is categorized under: Climate, History, Society, Culture > World Historical Perspectives

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The “cultural turn” of climate history: An emerging field for studies of China and East Asia

Williamson

2020

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Forms of meteorological knowledge 1750–1850 in German countries and beyond

Richter

2020

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The complexity of atmospherical processes has always yielded a multitude of ways of knowing about the weather. What has been lacking in the historiography of meteorology so far is a way to formulate differences between forms of knowledge in a way that does not privilege modern scientific structures, but focuses instead on the epistemological category of causality. Using causality as ground of comparison for different knowledge claims, I shall argue, may enable researchers to investigate meteorological knowledge across time periods, perhaps even geographical regions, in a more symmetrical manner. This review demonstrates this approach as a means to organize a large set of historical meteorological writings from German countries between 1750 and 1850. Three distinct forms of knowledge (Semiotics, Physics, and Organics of the weather) during that time and in that region are suggested and will be described. While a bibliography with a national perspective from the 1880s was the basis for the selection of historical sources, such a setup proved awkward even to contemporaries. In addition, the bibliography came with a number of biases and shortcomings that will be critically reviewed. This article is categorized under: Climate, History, Society, Culture > Major Historical Eras

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Culture and identity in climate policy

Patterson

2022

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Climate and Culture

Cited by 10 publications

References 491 publications

The “cultural turn” of climate history: An emerging field for studies of China and East Asia

The “cultural turn” of climate history: An emerging field for studies of China and East Asia

Forms of meteorological knowledge 1750–1850 in German countries and beyond

Culture and identity in climate policy

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