Storying Multipolar Climes of the Himalaya, Andes and Arctic: Anthropocenic Climate and Shapeshifting Watery Lifeworlds

This book explores the multipolar climate/clime studies of the world's altitudinal and latitudinal highlands, using terrestrial, experiential, and affective approaches. It is an interdisciplinary, comparative study of the mutually-embodied relations of climate, nature, culture, and place in the Himalaya, Andes, and Arctic, framed in the environmental humanities. The book offers multipolar clime case studies through historical findings, ethnographic documentations, and diverse conceptualizations and applications of clime. It aims to demonstrate the translatability, interchangeability, and complementarity between the notions of clime and climate. Contributors come from diverse fields and geographically specialize in the Himalayan, Andean, and Arctic regions.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 282 pages
Publication date: 23 March 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book is a groundbreaking exploration of the multipolar climate/clime studies of the world's altitudinal and latitudinal highlands, employing a diverse range of approaches, including terrestrial, experiential, and affective dimensions. Positioned within the environmental humanities, it constitutes an interdisciplinary, comparative study of the intricate and mutually-embodied relations between climate, nature, culture, and place in the Himalayan, Andean, and Arctic regions. Driven by innovation, the book presents multipolar clime case studies through the contributions of historical findings, ethnographic documentations, and diverse conceptualizations and applications of clime, a concept that has been overlooked but is making a resurgence in understanding climate history, patterns, and changes. The multipolar clime case studies presented in this book aim to delve deeper into the complexities and nuances of the relationship between clime and climate, fostering lively explorations and demonstrations of their translatability, interchangeability, and complementarity.

Multipolar or multipolarity in this book encompasses not only the two polar regions and the tectonically shaped highlands of the earth but also a wide range of perspectives within climate studies. Contributors from diverse fields of social and natural sciences and humanities, with geographical specializations in the Himalayan, Andean, and Arctic regions, contribute their expertise to the twelve chapters of the book.

As the first comparative study of climate change in altitudinal and latitudinal highlands, this book holds significant importance 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.

Weight: 472g
Dimension: 155 x 234 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032388359