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Climate change and social inequality : the health and social costs of global warming
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ISBN: 9781138102903 9781138102910 1138102903 Year: 2019 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Earthscan from Routledge,

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The year 2016 was the hottest year on record and the third consecutive record-breaking year in planet temperatures. The following year was the hottest in a non-El Nino year. Of the seventeen hottest years ever recorded, sixteen have occurred since 2000, indicating the trend in climate change is toward an ever warmer Earth. However, climate change does not occur in a social vacuum; it reflects relations between social groups and forces us to contemplate the ways in which we think about and engage with the environment and each other. Employing the experience-near anthropological lens to consider human social life in an environmental context, this book examines the fateful global intersection of ongoing climate change and widening social inequality. Over the course of the volume, Singer argues that the social and economic precarity of poorer populations and communities-from villagers to the urban disadvantaged in both the global North and global South-is exacerbated by climate change, putting some people at considerably enhanced risk compared to their wealthier counterparts. Moreover, the book adopts and supports the argument that the key driver of global climatic and environmental change is the global economy controlled primarily by the world's upper class, which profits from a ceaseless engine of increased production for national middle classes who have been converted into constant consumers. Drawing on case studies from Alaska, Ecuador, Bangladesh, Haiti and Mali, Climate Change and Social Inequality will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change and climate science, environmental anthropology, medical ecology and the anthropology of global health.


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Introduction to syndemics : a critical systems approach to public and community health
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ISBN: 9780470472033 0470472030 Year: 2009 Publisher: San Francisco (Calif.): Jossey-Bass,

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A companion to the anthropology of environmental health
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ISBN: 9781118786994 1118786998 Year: 2016 Publisher: Chichester, West Sussex, UK Malden, MA Wiley Blackwell

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Rethinking AIDS prevention : cultural approaches
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ISBN: 2881245528 Year: 1992 Publisher: Philadelphia : Gordon and Breach Science Publishers,

Critical medical anthropology
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ISBN: 0895031248 Year: 1995 Publisher: Amityville Baywood

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Unhealthy health policy : a critical anthropological examination
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ISBN: 0759105103 0759105111 Year: 2004 Publisher: Walnut Creek, Calif. : AltaMira Press,

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African-American religion in the twentieth century : varieties of protest and accomodation
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ISBN: 0870497472 0870497464 9780870497469 9780870497476 Year: 1992 Publisher: Knoxville: University of Tennessee press,

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Introducing medical anthropology : a discipline in action
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ISBN: 9780759110588 9780759110571 0759110573 0759110581 Year: 2007 Publisher: Lanham, Md. ; Plymouth : Altamira,

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Medical anthropology
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ISSN: 01459740 Year: 1997 Publisher: London


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The anthropology of climate change : an integrated critical perspective
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ISBN: 9781138574823 9781138574847 1138574821 1138574848 Year: 2018 Publisher: London : Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa Business,

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In addressing the urgent questions raised by climate change, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the anthropology of climate change, guided by a critical political ecological framework. It examines the emergence and slow maturation of the anthropology of climate change, reviews the historic foundations for this work in the archaeology of climate change, and presents three alternative contemporary theoretical perspectives in the anthropology of climate change.This second edition is fully updated to include the most recent literature published since the first edition in 2014. It also examines a number of new topics, including an analysis of the 2014 American Anthropological Association's Global Climate Change Task Force report, a new case study on responses to climate change in developed societies, and reference to the stance of the Trump administration on climate change.Not only does this book provide a valuable overview of the field and the key literature, but it also gives researchers and students in Environmental Anthropology, Climate Change, Human Geography, Sociology, and Political Science a novel framework for understanding climate change that emphasizes human socioecological interactions.

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