Thinking Like a Climate: Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change

Hannah Knox

Published by Duke University Press 2020

Thinking Like a Climate

Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change

Hannah Knox

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478012405

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About this book

Drawing on ethnographic research with policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England, Hannah Knox confronts the challenges climate change poses to knowledge production and modern politics.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

-- Nikhil Anand, author of Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai

-- Gökçe Günel, author of Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface and Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction · Matter, Politics, and Climate Change Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I . Contact Zones
Climate Change in Manchester: An Origin Story Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
One · 41% and the Problem of Proportion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
How the Climate Takes Shape Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Two · The Carbon Life of Buildings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Footprints and Traces , or Learning to Think Like a Climate Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Three · Footprints, Objects, and the Endlessness of Relations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
When Global Climate Meets Local Nature(s) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
Four · An Irrelevant Apocalypse: Futures, Models, and Scenarios Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Cities , Mayors, and Climate Change Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Five · Stuck in Strategies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Part II . Rematerializing Politics
Six · Test Houses and Vernacular Engineers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Seven · Activist Devices and the Art of Politics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Eight · Symptoms, Diagnoses, and the Politics of the Hack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
Conclusion · “Going Native” in the Anthropocene Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 326

eBook

Published: August 24, 2020
ISBN: 9781478012405