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Dancing with Uncertainty in South Asian Mountains

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This book reveals how marginalised communities living in South Asian Mountains are confronting the growing uncertainties of climate change amid fragile ecosystems and often failing policy responses.
  • 03 November 2026
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This book explores how marginalised communities in the mountains of South Asia are living through the deepening uncertainties exacerbated by the climate crisis and makes four major contributions. First, it demonstrates that uncertainty – marked by a growing sense of uncontrollability and loss of resonance – has become the defining condition of life in the age of anthropogenic climate change. Second, it situates these experiences within the global climate frontier of the South Asian Mountains, where climate change is unfolding, overlying existing uncertainties, with exceptional intensity and consequence. Third, through story-listening and collaborative narrative methods, the book foregrounds Indigenous and local knowledge as vital forms of evidence alongside scientific data. Finally, it challenges dominant policy frameworks by exposing how uncertainty in mountain environments remains poorly understood, inadequately addressed and urgently in need of new approaches.

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Price: $110.00
Pages: 250
Publisher: Anthem Press
Imprint: Anthem Press
Publication Date: 03 November 2026
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781801360722
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, The environment, SCIENCE / Physics / Mathematical & Computational, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Indigenous people: governance and politics, Regional geography
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Adam Pain has worked for the last 35 years in the Himalayan region on processes of agrarian change.

Jelle J. P. Wouters is an Anthropology Professor and the Director of Research and Development at Royal Thimphu College, Bhutan.