Introduction: Climate Change and Pacific Christianities

Kempf, W.

doi:10.1080/00664677.2020.1812052

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“…The authors invoke "living climate change"-not simply discussing "living with climate change" (2018, p. 1, emphasis in original), but pointing to "different forms, sources and registers of knowledge [as they] are being brought into new relations through climate change, and combined and made living in particular ways" (2018, p. 2). In similar moves to dismantle static dualisms (external/internal, nature/culture, North/South), studies by Callison (2014), Kempf (2017Kempf ( , 2020, Burman (2017), andS. De Wit (2018) follow climatechange in a variety of manifestations on its travels.…”

Section: Pluralizing Reception: Alterity Refusal and Changementioning

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“…Employing the idiom of translation, these authors examine moments and places where climate is formed and assembled anew, revealing shifting positionalities of translators and readers, and the friction, multiplicity, instability, “ontological conflict” or “disobedience” (Burman, 2017) and transformation of meaning. In a special issue on the reception of climate change in Oceania, Kempf (2020) explore the rarely studied connection between Christianity and climate change in the Global South. Through rich ethnographies they bring into view a “polyphony” of interpretations, which attest to the importance of Pacific Christianities as resources for indigenous agency to co‐construct new worlds (Kempf, 2020, p. 216).…”

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“…In a special issue on the reception of climate change in Oceania, Kempf (2020) explore the rarely studied connection between Christianity and climate change in the Global South. Through rich ethnographies they bring into view a “polyphony” of interpretations, which attest to the importance of Pacific Christianities as resources for indigenous agency to co‐construct new worlds (Kempf, 2020, p. 216).…”

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“…Social scientists and educators have also been critiqued on the grounds of unilinearity and reductionism, for stating that faith and belief are obstacles in the pursuit of adaptation rather than a potential resource (Donner, 2007, p. 233; Fair, 2018, p. 2; Hulme, 2017; Kempf, 2017). Anthropologists have juxtaposed these macro‐level narratives with ethnographies that draw attention to counter‐narratives emerging at micro‐scales in the encounter with this new “scientific prophecy” (Crook & Rudiak‐Gould, 2018, p. 16; Mortreux & Barnett, 2009; Kempf, 2020).…”

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Climate change reception studies in anthropology

Wit¹,

Haines

2021

WIREs Climate Change

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The past decade has seen increased anthropological attention to understandings of climate change not only as a biophysical phenomenon but also as a discourse that is traveling from international policy making platforms to the rest of the planet. The analysis of the uptake of climate change discourse falls under the emergent subfield of climate change reception studies. A few anthropological investigations identify themselves explicitly as reception studies; others only mention the term with little explanation. Our review discusses a fuller range of anthropological studies and ethnographies from related disciplines that treat climate change as a discursive reality, which is not independent from how it is intimated through close observations of the environment. The following themes emerged: language and expertise; place and vulnerability; modernity, morality, and temporality; alterity and refusal. The review suggests that the interaction of observation and reception is still not well understood, and that there is scope for more systematic methodological and theoretical synthesis, taking lessons into account from geographies of reading and empirical hermeneutics. By exploring the hermeneutical problem of upholding scientific integrity while being open to other ways of knowing, climate change reception studies' emancipatory potential lie in opening up knowledge spaces for multi‐directional and democratic approaches to living (with) climate change. In closing, we propose an interdisciplinary research agenda highlighting the potential generativity of translation as an idiom for theory and praxis relating to how people come to know climate (change)—through both perceptual engagement with the natural world and interpretations of discursive manifestations. This article is categorized under: Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge > Sociology/Anthropology of Climate Knowledge

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Section: Pluralizing Reception: Alterity Refusal and Changementioning

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Section: What Can We Learn From Reception Studies?mentioning

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Section: What Can We Learn From Reception Studies?mentioning

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2021

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“…A key goal identified by social scientists-but also variously in strands of scholarly activism (e.g. ecofeminist critique, see Israel and Sachs 2013) and non-western contexts (Hulme 2008: 8;Kempf 2020)-is thus finding a way out of the essentialised opposition between universal modern science versus non-scientific knowledge (Diemberger and Graf 2012: 233;Callison 2014). This is an objective increasingly engaged by activities in climate change communication.…”

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An IPCC that listens: introducing reciprocity to climate change communication

Dudman

Wit

2021

Climatic Change

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As the epistemic hand in the UNFCCC’S political glove, the IPCC is charged with furnishing the global dialogues with ‘reliable knowledge’ on climate change. Much has been written about how this body of scientific information can be communicated more effectively to a diverse public, but considerably less so on the role communication might play in making the IPCC itself more receptive to alternative forms of contribution. Climate change communication remains centred on a unidirectional model that has helped climate science achieve greater public legibility, but so far not explored equivalent channels within institutional thinking for representing public and other non-scientific knowledges. Anticipating a new assessment report and major developments for the Paris Agreement, now is an opportunity to consider ambitious pathways to reciprocity in the IPCC’s communication strategy. Drawing on interdisciplinary insights from social science literatures, we argue that communication is not only inseparable from knowledge politics in the IPCC, but that communication activities and research may prove key avenues for making the IPCC more inclusive. Recognising climate communication as a developed field of study and practice with significant influence in the IPCC, we present a framework for categorising communicative activities into those which help the panel speak with a more human voice, and those that help it listen receptively to alternative forms of knowledge. The latter category especially invites communicators to decouple ‘epistemic authority’ from ‘scientific authority’, and so imagine new forms of expert contribution. This is critical to enabling active and equitable dialogue with underrepresented publics that democratises climate governance, and enhances the public legitimacy of the IPCC.

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Christianity, Creation, and the Climate Crisis: Ecotheological Paradigms and Perspectives

Luetz

Leo

2021

Climate Change Management

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Introduction: Climate Change and Pacific Christianities

Cited by 10 publications

References 48 publications

Climate change reception studies in anthropology

Climate change reception studies in anthropology

An IPCC that listens: introducing reciprocity to climate change communication

Christianity, Creation, and the Climate Crisis: Ecotheological Paradigms and Perspectives

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