Unsettling times: living with the changing horizons of the Peruvian Andes
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Unsettling times : living with the changing horizons of the Peruvian Andes. / Rasmussen, Mattias Borg.
In: Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 43, No. 4, 2016, p. 73-86.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Unsettling times
T2 - living with the changing horizons of the Peruvian Andes
AU - Rasmussen, Mattias Borg
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - As in many other parts of the Peruvian Andes, the peasants of rural Recuay report receding glaciers, altered patterns of precipitation, and disappearing species of plants and wildlife among the many things that may unsettle the everyday. Susan Whyte’s concept of uncertainty highlights the fact that climate change emerges in different ways in particular situations. It informs water politics and local lives but is not a priori the most important part of the story. Rather than adapting to climate change, people adapt climate change to their social worlds.
AB - As in many other parts of the Peruvian Andes, the peasants of rural Recuay report receding glaciers, altered patterns of precipitation, and disappearing species of plants and wildlife among the many things that may unsettle the everyday. Susan Whyte’s concept of uncertainty highlights the fact that climate change emerges in different ways in particular situations. It informs water politics and local lives but is not a priori the most important part of the story. Rather than adapting to climate change, people adapt climate change to their social worlds.
U2 - 10.1177/0094582X16637867
DO - 10.1177/0094582X16637867
M3 - Journal article
VL - 43
SP - 73
EP - 86
JO - Latin American Perspectives
JF - Latin American Perspectives
SN - 0094-582X
IS - 4
ER -
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