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Title:
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Global Warning: an Ethnography of the Encounter between Global and Local
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Authors:
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Sara De Wit
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Material Type:
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printed text
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Publisher:
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Leiden : African Studies Centre, 2015
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ISBN (or other code):
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9789956762972 9789956792115
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Size:
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222
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Languages:
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English
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Class number:
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08.2 (Environment)
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Keywords:
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Sociology
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Global warming
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Climate change
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Environment
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Cameroon
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Abstract:
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Moving beyond existing approaches that largely deal with the biophysical consequences of climate change realities in Africa, this book explores an alternative perspective that traces climate change as a travelling idea. It focuses on how globally constructed discourses on climate change find their way to the local level in the Bamenda Grassfields of Cameroon, thereby seeking to understand how these discursive practices lead to social transformations, and to new configurations of power. In the translation process from the ̐ưglobal̐ư to the ̐ưlocal̐ư level a continuous modification and appropriation.
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Link for e-copy:
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http://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=2071846
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