In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from the Global South
Naveeda Khan
(Author)
Description
An eye-opening firsthand account of the negotiating rooms responsible for the direction of the most urgent issue of our time
Product Details
Price
$24.95
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Publish Date
May 16, 2023
Pages
240
Dimensions
6.0 X 9.0 X 0.56 inches | 0.81 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781531502782
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About the Author
Naveeda Khan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She sits on the board of the JHU Center for Islamic Studies, and serves as affiliate faculty for the JHU Undergraduate Program in Environmental Science and Studies. She is the author of Muslim Becoming: Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan (Duke, 2012) and River Life and the Upspring of Nature (Duke, 2023) and editor of Beyond Crisis: Re-evaluating Pakistan (Routledge, 2010).
Reviews
With vivid ethnography we are transported to the central hub of climate politics and invited to share in the aspirations of youth activists and the enduring labors of COP negotiators and to view the climate crisis from the perspective of the Global South. Analytically sophisticated, with stories that bring us to the heart of the conversations shaping our socioenvironmental futures, In Quest of a Shared Planet is precisely the kind of dialog we need to be having now.---Cymene Howe, Rice University
Khan shows us the game of global climate negotiations, in which the world's nations play for the immensely high stakes of reshaping economies to avoid existential disaster. From her close-in position as an embedded ethnographer, she articulates the brilliant strategies by which one small poor country, Bangladesh, succeeded in advancing the needs of the world's most vulnerable people.---Ben Orlove, Columbia University
An outstanding book, by an excellent scholar writing in a popular voice. The book is a crucial resource for those seeking to understand the COP process, particularly those who are planning to attend as delegates.---Jessica O'Reilly, Indiana University
If there's one country on earth that has the most at stake in slowing climate change, it might be Bangladesh. So it makes great sense to hear the story of the global climate negotiations from this perspective--it will be of interest to anyone who has followed these talks, or who wants to understand how the world looks different depending on where on it you were born.---Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature
Khan shows us the game of global climate negotiations, in which the world's nations play for the immensely high stakes of reshaping economies to avoid existential disaster. From her close-in position as an embedded ethnographer, she articulates the brilliant strategies by which one small poor country, Bangladesh, succeeded in advancing the needs of the world's most vulnerable people.---Ben Orlove, Columbia University
An outstanding book, by an excellent scholar writing in a popular voice. The book is a crucial resource for those seeking to understand the COP process, particularly those who are planning to attend as delegates.---Jessica O'Reilly, Indiana University
If there's one country on earth that has the most at stake in slowing climate change, it might be Bangladesh. So it makes great sense to hear the story of the global climate negotiations from this perspective--it will be of interest to anyone who has followed these talks, or who wants to understand how the world looks different depending on where on it you were born.---Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature
