Climate Culture Change

by Leduc, Timothy B.

• ISBN13: 9780776607504
• ISBN10: 0776607502
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-08
• Publisher: Univ of Ottawa Pr

Summary

Every day brings new headlines about climate change as politicians debate how to respond, scientists offer new data, and skeptics critique the validity of the research. To step outside these scientific and political debates, Timothy Leduc engages with various Inuit understandings of northern climate change. What he learns is that todayrs"s climate changes are not only affecting our environments, but also our cultures. By focusing on the changes currently occurring in the north, he highlights the challenges being posed to Western climate research, Canadian politics and traditional Inuit knowledge.Climate, Culture, Changesheds light on the cultural challenges posed by northern warming and proposes an intercultural response that is demonstrated by the blending of Inuit and Western perspectives.

Author Biography

Dr. Timothy Leduc worked for a number of years in northern indigenous communities. His doctorate in Environmental Studies from York University built upon these experiences by bringing Inuit ecological and cultural views of today's northern warming into dialogue with Western interdisciplinary climate research like those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. His present research is concerned with building global networks that will add intercultural views on regional changes to climate research.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements	p. I
Introduction: Endangered Knowledge	p. 1
Sila Wisdom for a Time of Change	p. 19
Researching Gaia's Uncertain Climate	p. 49
Canadian Call for a Global Conscience	p. 79
Colonial Apologies from Canada?	p. 109
American Fuel for a Global Apocalypse	p. 143
Making Carbon Confessions to Sedna	p. 179
Conclusion: Our Climatic Challenge	p. 213
Bibliography	p. 239
Index	p. 257
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