This book initiates multipolar climate/clime studies of the world's
altitudinal and latitudinal highlands with terrestrial, experiential,
and affective approaches. Framed in the environmental humanities, it is
an interdisciplinary, comparative study of the mutually-embodied
relations of climate, nature, culture, and place in the Himalaya, Andes,
and Arctic.
Innovation-driven, the book offers multipolar clime case studies through
the contributors' historical findings, ethnographic documentations, and
diverse conceptualizations and applications of clime, an overlooked but
returning notion of place embodied with climate history, pattern, and
changes. The multipolar clime case studies in the book are geared toward
deeper, lively explorations and demonstrations of the translatability,
interchangeability, and complementarity between the notions of clime and
climate. "Multipolar" or "multipolarity" in this book connotes not only
the two polar regions and the tectonically shaped highlands of the earth
but also diversely debated perspectives of climate studies in the
broadest sense. Contributors across the twelve chapters come from
diverse fields of social and natural sciences and humanities, and
geographically specialize, respectively, in the Himalayan, Andean, and
Arctic regions.
The first comparative study of climate change in altitudinal and
latitudinal highlands, this will be an important read for students,
academics, and researchers in environmental humanities, anthropology,
climate science, indigenous studies, and ecology.
Chapters 8 and 9 of this book are freely available as a downloadable
Open Access PDF at http:
//www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/10.4324/9781003347026 under a Creative
Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0
license.
