Abstract This paper explores how the idea of climate change travels to the islands of Micronesia and how discourses are translated in radically different ways in local life-worlds. Building on long-term fieldwork in Chuuk, the paper first conceptualizes climate change as a ‘travelling idea’ which takes its departure to the islandscape of Oceania in ‘Western’ island conceptions of ‘insularity’ and feed the ‘vulnerability trajectories’ that turned the islands into the world’s canary for the impact of climate change. It secondly examines why the issue of climate change remains a non-topic or a secondary aspect to many of the islanders, who are simultaneously put at the frontline in the global campaign against global warming.

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在太平洋地区定位全球气候变化。密克罗尼西亚联邦 (FSM) 丘克的知识与响应

摘要 本文探讨了气候变化的思想如何传播到密克罗尼西亚群岛，以及这些话语如何在当地生活世界中以截然不同的方式被翻译。在丘克长期实地考察的基础上，该论文首先将气候变化概念化为一种“旅行理念”，它以“西方”岛屿的“岛国”概念出发到大洋洲的岛屿景观，并为改变世界的“脆弱性轨迹”提供了动力。由于气候变化的影响，岛屿变成了世界的金丝雀。其次，它考察了为什么气候变化问题对许多岛民来说仍然是一个非主题或次要方面，他们同时被置于全球应对全球变暖运动的前线。