Issue 39(1) of PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review includes a symposium on Climate Transformations that showcases research by Jerome Whitington, Gökçe Günel, and David Rojas. Here, we offer a cross-disciplinary spillover conversation on the symposium. Spearheaded by Digital Editorial Fellows, Kosi Onyeneho, Nathan Coben, and Natalia Guzmán Solano, this free-to-access supplement features an introduction by Onyeneho, Coben, and Guzmán Solano; written responses to questions posed in the symposium by four non-anthropology experts; and a digital video conversation between David Rojas and Antonia Walford about the role of anthropology in public conversations about climate change.
The pieces that make up the cross-disciplinary conversation on Climate Transformations are:
- An Interdisciplinary Conversation on Climate Change Transformations by Kosi Onyeneho, Nathan Thomas Coben, and Natalia Guzmán Solano
- Will We Learn to Govern in the Long Term? by Tamara L. Slater
- What does Climate Change Demand of Communications? by Roberta Laurie
- Response to Symposium on Climate Change Transformations by Lauren Gifford
- Interview with Marine Franck by Marine Franck, Nathan Thomas Coben, and Kosi Onyeneho
- The Role of Anthropology in Public Debates on Climate Transformations by David Rojas, Antonia Walford, and Natalia Guzmán Solano (Video)
The original symposium on Climate Transformations includes the following pieces:
- Symposium Introduction: What Does Climate Change Demand of Anthropology? by Jerome Whitington
- Climate Politics in the Anthropocene and Environmentalism Beyond Nature and Culture in Brazilian Amazonia by David Rojas
- What is Carbon Dioxide? When is Carbon Dioxide? by Gökçe Günel
- Carbon as a Metric of the Human by Jerome Whitington