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Publications | Making Social Knowledge

Accountability and the academy: producing knowledge about the human dimensions of climate change

Mar 4, 2015 | Publications

This article won the prestigious British Sociological Association’s Climate Change Article Prize in 2015, coming in second overall among the three winning nominations. In 2016, we were invited to reflect further on the topic in a prize-winners’ workshop the...

The making and unmaking of rains and reigns

Nov 15, 2014 | Publications

One question that has attracted considerable attention in recent years is the relation between ‘nature’ and ‘culture/society,’ and how (and if) to theorise it. This chapter provides one possible answer through a selective social history of the...

Comments on ‘Climate change and accusation: global warming and local blame in a small Island state.’

Oct 1, 2014 | Publications

This is an invited commentary on an article by Peter Rudiak-Gould, an anthropologist who has written extensively on climate change as it pertains to the Marshall Islands. It aims to extend his analysis of how to understand Marshall Islanders’ self-blame for...

The trouble with deficits

Dec 5, 2013 | Publications

Increasing numbers of social and natural scientists are turning their attention to the impacts of climate change on so-called traditional peoples. This piece examines an article on the subject that appeared in a high-profile climate change journal, and that has since...