Nature Is for Trees, Culture Is for Humans: A Critical Reading of the IPCC Report

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dc.article.number11903
dc.catalogadorgjm
dc.contributor.authorMatus Cánovas, Claudia
dc.contributor.authorBussenius Méndez, Pascale
dc.contributor.authorHerraz Mardones, Pablo Cristián
dc.contributor.authorRiberi Manzur, Valentina Constanza
dc.contributor.authorPrieto, Manuel
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-03T17:34:13Z
dc.date.available2023-05-03T17:34:13Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractIn this article, we problematize conventional views regarding culture presented in the assessment report entitled Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. This report is a contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). We posit that when culture is seen as a stable category and imagined as a space composed of humans-and, more precisely, only certain humans-an epistemological, ontological, and ethical order is reproduced in which (a) nature is framed as a passive and apolitical "out there ", (b) knowledge based on this division is misleading and partial (e.g., social scientists study culture and natural scientists study nature), and (c) dominant humanist assumptions become common-sense explanations for inequalities. We conduct a critical discourse analysis of the IPCC report to better understand which assumptions produce the conceptualization of culture as a stable category. In our conclusion, we offer an example of a semiotic-meaning intervention of a section of the report to demonstrate the vitality of the concepts presented in this document. Subsequently, we discuss the consequences of omitting the vital traffic between the biological, social, and cultural realms from discussions on climate change to reexamine the production and reproduction of inequalities.
dc.description.funderChilean National Agency for Research and Development (Agencia Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo de Chile, ANID)
dc.description.funderPIA
dc.fechaingreso.objetodigital2023-05-03
dc.format.extent9 páginas
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/su132111903
dc.identifier.eissn2071-1050
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/21/11903
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/66893
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000722384500001
dc.information.autorucFacultad de educación; Matus Cánovas, Claudia; 0000-0002-9180-8237; 2595
dc.information.autorucInstituto de sociología; Bussenius Méndez, Pascale; S/I; 221693
dc.information.autorucEscuela de psicología; Herraz Mardones, Pablo Cristián; S/I; 149158
dc.information.autorucFacultad de educación; Riberi Manzur, Valentina Constanza; 0000-0001-8811-5889; 1013886
dc.issue.numero21
dc.language.isoen
dc.nota.accesoContenido completo
dc.revistaSustainability
dc.rightsacceso abierto
dc.subjectIPCC
dc.subjectCritical discourse analysis
dc.subjectNormative ideas of culture
dc.subjectSeparation
dc.subjectInequalities
dc.subjectClimate change
dc.subject.ods13 Climate Action
dc.subject.odspa13 Acción por el clima
dc.titleNature Is for Trees, Culture Is for Humans: A Critical Reading of the IPCC Report
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen13
sipa.codpersvinculados2595
sipa.codpersvinculados221693
sipa.codpersvinculados149158
sipa.codpersvinculados1013886
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