In this Book
- Climate, Culture, Change: Inuit and Western Dialogues with a Warming North
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: University of Ottawa Press
Every day brings new headlines about climate change as politicians debate how to respond, scientists offer new data, and skeptics critique the validity of the research. To step outside these scientific and political debates, Timothy Leduc engages with various Inuit understandings of northern climate change. What he learns is that today’s climate changes are not only affecting our environments, but also our cultures. By focusing on the changes currently occurring in the north, he highlights the challenges being posed to Western climate research, Canadian politics and traditional Inuit knowledge.
Climate, Culture, Change sheds light on the cultural challenges posed by northern warming and proposes an intercultural response that is demonstrated by the blending of Inuit and Western perspectives.
Table of Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- pp. I-VII
- Sila Wisdom for a Time of Change
- pp. 19-48
- Researching Gaia’s Uncertain Climate
- pp. 49-78
- Canadian Call for a Global Conscience
- pp. 79-108
- Colonial Apologies from Canada?
- pp. 109-142
- American Fuel for a Global Apocalypse
- pp. 143-178
- Making Carbon Confessions to Sedna
- pp. 179-212
- Conclusion: Our Climatic Challenge
- pp. 213-238
- Bibliography
- pp. 239-256