What Does Climate Change Mean to Us, the Maasai? How Climate-Change Discourse is Translated in Maasailand, Northern Tanzania (original) (raw)

2020, Global Communications

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This chapter explores how Maasai pastoralists in Terrat village, Northern Tanzania, interpret and engage with climate change discourse, challenging the notion of a straightforward transition from global understanding to local reality. The community's varied perceptions illustrate a complex interplay between traditional knowledge, cultural identity, and external narratives regarding climate change, revealing both skepticism and cultural resistance to imposed scientific explanations.

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What Does Climate Change Mean to Us, the Maasai? How Climate-Change Discourse is Translated in Maasailand, Northern Tanzania (original) (raw)

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