Thinking Like a Climate

Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change

Hannah Knox (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2020
Duke University Press (Verlag)
9781478009818 (ISBN)

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In Thinking Like a Climate Hannah Knox confronts the challenges that climate change poses to knowledge production and modern politics. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England-birthplace of the Industrial Revolution-Knox explores the city's strategies for understanding and responding to deteriorating environmental conditions. Climate science, Knox argues, frames climate change as a very particular kind of social problem that confronts the limits of administrative and bureaucratic techniques of knowing people, places, and things. Exceeding these limits requires forging new modes of relating to climate in ways that reimagine the social in climatological terms. Knox contends that the day-to-day work of crafting and implementing climate policy and translating climate knowledge into the work of governance demonstrates that local responses to climate change can be scaled up to effect change on a global scale.

Hannah Knox is Associate Professor of Anthropology at University College London, coauthor of Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise, and coeditor of Ethnography for a Data-Saturated World and Objects and Materials: A Routledge Companion.

Abbreviations ix
Preface and Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Matter, Politics, and Climate Change 1
Part I. Contact Zones
Climate Change in Manchester: An Origin Story 35
1. 41% and the Problem of Proportion 40
How the Climate Takes Shape 63
2. The Carbon Life of Buildings 67
Footprints and Traces, or Learning to Think Like a Climate 89
3. Footprints, Objects, and the Endlessness of Relations 95
When Global Climate Meets Local Nature(s) 122
4. An Irrelevant Apocalypse: Futures, Models, and Scenarios 127
Cities, Mayors, and Climate Change 156
5. Stuck in Strategies 159
Part II. Rematerializing Politics
6. Test Houses and Vernacular Engineers 179
7. Activist Devices and the Art of Politics 205
8. Symptoms, Diagnoses, and the Politics of the Hack 234
Conclusion. "Going Native" in the Anthropocene 259
Notes 273
References 285
Index 305

Erscheinungsdatum	04.09.2020
Zusatzinfo	15 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781478009818 / 9781478009818
Zustand	Neuware