Climate Change

Societies have culturally framed and interacted with historical climate variability or anthropogenic climate change and climatic extremes in different ways, thereby becoming more or less vulnerable to the impacts of these events. This volume of the Handbook »The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis« focuses on climate change and its socio-climatic and socio-environmental entanglements in the main macro-regions of Latin America from the colonial regime to the contemporary era of the Anthropocene. The contributions enrich contemporary debates surrounding the genealogy of the Anthropocene in Latin America with critical perspectives from the social sciences and the humanities.

Eleonora Rohland ist Professorin für Verflechtungsgeschichte der Amerikas in der Vormoderne an der Universität Bielefeld und Direktorin des dortigen Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS). Ihre Forschung verbindet die Umwelt- und Klimageschichte mit der interamerikanischen Verflechtungsgeschichte. Sie ist Teilprojektleiterin im Bielefelder SFB 1288 »Praktiken des Vergleichens: Die Welt ordnen und verändern« sowie Co-Koordinatorin der Forschungsgruppe »Coping with Environmental Crises« am Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) in Guadalajara (Mexiko).

Virginia García Acosta is a Mexican social anthropologist and historian. She has been a professor and researcher at Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) since 1973, where she held positions as general and academic director. Her areas of expertise are anthropology and history of risk and disasters in Mexico and Latin America. She is a full member of the Mexican Academy of History, the Mexican Academy of Sciences and the National System of Researchers.

Anthony Goebel McDermott is a professor at the School of History and researcher at the Center for Historical Research of Central America (CIHAC) of Universidad de Costa Rica. There, he is part of the research team of the program »Intersection between Environmental History and Social Studies of Science, Technology and Society« (STS). His research focuses on the history of science and economic history as well as on the environmental history of Costa Rica and Central America.

Javier Taks is a professor and researcher at Universidad de la República, Uruguay in the department of cultural and social anthropology and in the faculty of social sciences. His lines of research revolve around the study of society and environment relations (energy, climate change, water), transformations in rural dynamics, urban mobility, development theory, economic anthropology and political ecology.