Engaged Climate Anthropology

Abstract

This entry discusses the development of the anthropology of climate change and engaged climate anthropology as its inevitable derivative, given the gravity of anthropogenic climate change for humanity as a whole and for local populations, which have constituted the mainstay of anthropological research around the world. It focuses on three settings in which engaged climate anthropologists work: climate policy, communities impacted by climate change, and climate action groups and climate movements. Given the gravity of climate change, engaged climate anthropologists are urged to take part in a larger project, namely the anthropology of the future, which prompts us to be a part of a growing glo..