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Changing Seasonality: How Communities Are Revising Their Seasons

Changing Seasonality: How Communities Are Revising Their Seasons - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Scott Bremer (Editor), Arjan Wardekker (Editor)Publish date:2024-01-29Pages:264
Language:EnglishPublisher:de GruyterISBN-13:9783111245515ISBN-10:3111245519UPC:9783111245515Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, SociologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.2214Product ID:SC1R25HM7A

Communities worldwide are critically re-examining their seasonal cultures and calendars. As cultural frameworks, seasons have long patterned community life and provided repertoires for living by annual rhythms. In a chaotic world, the seasons - winter, the monsoon and so on - can feel like stable cultural landmarks for reckoning time and orienting our communities. Seasons are rooted in our pasts and reproduced in our present. They act as schemes for synchronising community activities and professional practices, and as symbol systems for interpreting what happens in the world. But on closer inspection, seasons can be unstable and unreliable. Their meanings can change over time. Seasonal cultures evolve with environments and communities' worldviews, values, technologies and practices, affecting how people perceive seasonal patterns and behave accordingly. Calendars are contested, especially now. Communities today find themselves in a moment of accelerated and intersecting changes - from climate to social, political, and technological - that are destabilizing seasonal cultures. How they reorient themselves to shifting patterns may affect whether seasonal rhythms serve as resources, or lead people down maladaptive pathways. A focus on seasonal cultures builds on multi-disciplinary work. The social sciences, from anthropology to sociology, have long studied how seasons order people's sense of time, social life, relationship to the environment, and politics. In the humanities, seasons play an important role in literature, art, archaeology and history. This book advances scholarship in these fields, and enriches it with extrascientific insights from practice, to open up exiting new directions in climate adaptation.

Language:EnglishPublisher:de GruyterISBN-13:9783111245515ISBN-10:3111245519UPC:9783111245515Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, SociologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.2214Product ID:SC1R25HM7A

Scott Bremer, University of Bergen, Norway.

Arjan Wardekker, University of Bergen, Norway.


Publisher: de Gruyter

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