This book aims to provide a better understanding of how human cultures interact with climate change over an extended period of time. It is an analysis of the past and present, ranging from the first human migration to contemporary organizational management using an approach developed by Michel Foucault, defined as: the research, the practice, the experience, by which the subject operates on themselves the transformations necessary in order to have access to the truth. This book consists of two parts. The first part focuses on climate change and the substantial effects it had on the first human cultures. The second part explores the role of organizations and the development of new frameworks for action in more recent times of anthropogenic climate change.
Author(s): Stéphane Callens, Jamila Alaktif
Series: Interdisciplinarity, Science and Humanities Series
Publisher: Wiley-ISTE
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 251
City: London
Cover
Half-Title Page
Dedication
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
A Global History of Interactions between Climates and Cultures
1.1. Human diversity and climate
1.1.1. A summary chronology
1.1.2. Climate and cultural diversity
1.1.3. Paleolithic climate and cultures
1.1.4. Climate theories
1.2. Effects of climate change on cultural and spiritual transformations
1.2.1. Climatic and axial periods
1.2.2. Climate theologies
1.3. Cultural and spiritual transformations: a methodology from Michel Foucault’s work
1.3.1. Between human cultures and spiritual art, the case of the Lascaux cave
1.3.2. Spirituality, an element of Foucault’s work
1.3.3. Body paintings
1.3.4. The mystic, the ascetic and the climate
1.3.5. Politics and spirituality
1.4. The major role of intermediary structures: organizations in large-scale climate changes
1.5. Overview of the book
PART 1: The First Cultures in a Context of High Climate Instability
1. Migration and Creativity: What Roles do They Play During Climate Change?
1.1. A necessary evil
1.1.1. The methodological challenge of a global history
1.1.2. Denial or a mandate from heaven
1.2. Cultures and climatic gradient
1.3. The conquest of ubiquity
1.4. Migration: capacity or necessity?
1.4.1. H. ergaster’s African exits
1.4.2. The African exits of anatomically modern humans
1.5. The oboes of the Swabian Jura
1.5.1. Climate change and the birth of the arts
1.5.2. European cultures of the Upper Paleolithic and Heinrich events
1.6. Discussion
2. Living with the Extreme
2.1. The example of super-flooding
2.2. In search of a new interpretative framework
2.3. Extreme measurements
2.3.1. Laughter: characterizing risk in climate change?
2.3.2. Ecstasy
2.3.3. Sacrifice
2.3.4. Communication
2.4. The first GLOF cultures
2.4.1. The “bathymetry” of myths and tales
2.4.2. Some examples of cultures associated with GLOFs
2.4.3. The severity of the floods and their cultural translation
2.4.4. The objectification of ice sheet GLOFs
2.5. The first cultural groups of anatomically modern humans and climate change
2.6. The problem of Apollo’s birth
2.7. The constitution of dragons, gods and humans in the myths of the flooding of hydraulic civilizations
2.8. Discussion
3. The Great Historical Transitions of Climate Cultures
3.1. Historical human cultures, between fiction and knowledge of natural risks
3.2. Water, a historical problem, from Mesoamerica to Africa
3.2.1. Human cultures facing floods
3.2.2. “Dragon” myths
3.3. Human diversity and taiga shamanism
3.3.1. Contemporary shamanism, a look at Eros and Askêsis
3.3.2. Paleolithic cultures according to climate change
3.4. Spiritual corporalities of body paintings
3.5. Myths linked to the problem of water: first texts and first empires
3.5.1. The Superwise
3.5.2. Court shamanism
3.5.3. Rome and China
3.6. Discussion: the politicization of corporalities
PART 2: Contemporary Cultures and Climate Change
4. Norms and Diversity in Climate Change
4.1. Climate change and normativity
4.1.1. Normativity and resilience
4.1.2. Norms and the environment
4.1.3. History of climate change policy
4.1.4. Mitigation and adaptation
4.2. Normativity and diversity
4.2.1. Diversity: a table of theoretical insights
4.2.2. Contingency
4.2.3. Otherness and truth
4.2.4. Governance and separation of powers
4.2.5. Operational benefits
4.2.6. Discussion: what diversities for the climate?
4.3. The hard and soft law discussion
4.4. Normativity and climate migration
4.4.1. Climate motivations in migration
4.4.2. Competition of norms in soft and hard law
5. Organization, Climate and Sustainable Development
5.1. Organizations and time horizons: Beck’s theory
5.1.1. Organization and globalization
5.1.2. Beck’s theory
5.2. Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
5.2.1. Soft law as a standardization of voluntary commitments
5.2.2. Voluntary engagement standards and “cosmopolitan climate risk communities”
5.2.3. Diversity and governance in climate change
5.3. Organization and decentralization in the energy transition: the example of Senegal
5.3.1. Africa, the green continent in the quest for sustainability
5.3.2. Senegal’s Renewable Energy Access Program
5.3.3. A need to articulate public decentralization and renewable energy
5.3.4. Quality, pricing and decentralization: an international political economy of energy access
6. Climate and Religion in Protectionism
6.1. Climate change and protectionism
6.2. Mercantilism and religion
6.2.1. Papal bulls, an example of religious regionalism
6.2.2. Economic nationalism
6.2.3. Customs revenue
6.3. Parliamentary protectionism and religion: a comparison of France and the United States
6.3.1. France
6.3.2. The United States
6.4. Interfaith dialogue and fundamentalism
6.4.1. Traditionalism, fundamentalism and trade policy
6.4.2. The bridge or the wall
6.4.3. Discussion
Conclusion: Climate and Culture
Glossary
References
Index
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