EthnosPub Date : 2023-08-08eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2023.2242599
Susannah Crockford
{"title":"That Which They Will Not See: Climate Denial as a Vector of Epistemological Crisis in the Contemporary United States.","authors":"Susannah Crockford","doi":"10.1080/00141844.2023.2242599","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00141844.2023.2242599","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Climate denial continues as a cultural epistemology for anthropogenic climate change in the United States, despite worsening impacts. This article offers an ethnographic account of rural areas in three states in the southern US - Arizona, Louisiana, and Missouri - based on long-term participant observation and interview data. Engaging with the literature on agnotology, the social construction of ignorance, the argument is made that this literature as it pertains to climate denial does not go far enough in accounting for the persistence of the rejection of climate science. Theoretically drawing from anthropological work on the incommensurability of paradigms, the argument is based on a tripartite construction of denial as produced through an interaction of a cultural norm of radical empiricism, a political-media ecosystem funded by fossil fuel companies, and a cosmological schema derived from conservative white evangelicalism. The result of this process is an epistemological crisis in contemporary American society.</p>","PeriodicalId":47259,"journal":{"name":"Ethnos","volume":" ","pages":"362-382"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11956776/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43927118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EthnosPub Date : 2023-08-02DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2023.2243398
Eva Fiks
{"title":"Care, Violence, and More-Than-Human Reproductive Ecologies in North India","authors":"Eva Fiks","doi":"10.1080/00141844.2023.2243398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2023.2243398","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47259,"journal":{"name":"Ethnos","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42775391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EthnosPub Date : 2023-07-30DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2023.2240537
A. Abeyasekera
{"title":"Intimate Evictability: Urban Displacement, Familial Violence and Women’s Claim to Home in Urban Sri Lanka","authors":"A. Abeyasekera","doi":"10.1080/00141844.2023.2240537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2023.2240537","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47259,"journal":{"name":"Ethnos","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41944680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EthnosPub Date : 2023-07-25DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2023.2227773
Anu Lounela, Heikki Wilenius
{"title":"Haunting the Factory: Indonesian Modernity and the Spiritual Landscape of Central Kalimantan","authors":"Anu Lounela, Heikki Wilenius","doi":"10.1080/00141844.2023.2227773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2023.2227773","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47259,"journal":{"name":"Ethnos","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45372382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EthnosPub Date : 2023-07-11DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2023.2208309
Camelia Dewan
{"title":"Toxic Residues in Fluid Commons: More-Than-Economic Dispossession and Shipbreaking in Coastal Bangladesh","authors":"Camelia Dewan","doi":"10.1080/00141844.2023.2208309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2023.2208309","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47259,"journal":{"name":"Ethnos","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46687046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EthnosPub Date : 2023-07-11DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2023.2213852
Riamsara Kuyakanon Knapp
{"title":"Shifting Sands, Land from the Sea: A Microhistory of Coastal Land Titling in Thailand","authors":"Riamsara Kuyakanon Knapp","doi":"10.1080/00141844.2023.2213852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2023.2213852","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47259,"journal":{"name":"Ethnos","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44418769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EthnosPub Date : 2023-07-11DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2023.2213855
Sandro Simon
{"title":"The Art of Gleaning and Not Becoming Domesticated in Mollusc Waterworlds","authors":"Sandro Simon","doi":"10.1080/00141844.2023.2213855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2023.2213855","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47259,"journal":{"name":"Ethnos","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44426745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}