Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters

"Making climate change meaningful at the local scale is a precondition for empowering local communities to deal with its consequences on their own terms. This volume illustrates how the concept of clime can help achieve this goal by viewing climate variability and change from a Himalayan multispecies perspective."

Theodore G. Shepherd, Grantham Professor of Climate Science, University of Reading, UK

"This volume is a veritable tour de force in the decolonial environmental humanities. Bringing dominant climate science into conversation with everyday human experience, it compellingly centers the affective, multispecies, and situated ways that climate change is encountered and interpreted across Himalayan sites, scales, and subjects. Incisive and nuanced in its analyses, this volume is essential reading for anyone concerned with the changing natures of life, entanglement, and agency in an age of ecological unraveling."

Sophie Chao, Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Sydney, Australia

"This is not just a book about the Himalayas; it's a conversation starter, a call to action, and an invitation to see the Himalayan world through a lens of multispecies encounters and shared climatic realities. The groundbreaking chapters delve into the Himalayas, not just as a physical terrain, but as a living, breathing entity shaped by diverse climates and vibrant multispecies interactions."

Arupjyoti Saikia, Professor of History, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India