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OverviewIn 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Hannah KnoxPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9781478009818ISBN 10: 1478009810 Pages: 328 Publication Date: 02 October 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"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"ReviewsWe know that industrial activity is altering our planet's atmosphere, and that we need to act fast to mitigate it. But what should we do, exactly? Through her careful and inventive exploration of climate change activism in Manchester, anthropologist Hannah Knox provides pathways to answering this vital yet difficult question. Her stellar ethnography demonstrates that we will learn how to 'think like a climate,' building connections rather than boundaries. -- Goekce Gunel, author of * Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi * What makes climate change mitigation so challenging, even for activists and municipal officials committed to the project? Working with planners experts and citizens seeking to redress the most pernicious impacts of climate change in Manchester, Hannah Knox produces the most stunning and thought-provoking ethnographic account of climate change that I have read. She urges us to consider climate change as a 'form of thought'-a pattern produced when spreadsheets, green moralities, technologies, and modes of calculation interact. These interactions, she argues, remake not just what climate means, or what counts as climate action. They also demand nothing less than a revolutionary transformation of our understandings of humanity and responsibility in the contemporary moment. -- Nikhil Anand, author of * Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai * We know that industrial activity is altering our planet's atmosphere, and that we need to act fast to mitigate it. But what should we do, exactly? Through her careful and inventive exploration of climate change activism in Manchester, anthropologist Hannah Knox provides pathways to answering this vital yet difficult question. Her stellar ethnography demonstrates that we will learn how to 'think like a climate,' building connections rather than boundaries. -- Goekce Gunel, author of * Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi * What makes climate change mitigation so challenging, even for activists and municipal officials committed to the project? Working with planners, experts, and citizens seeking to redress the most pernicious impacts of climate change in Manchester, Hannah Knox has produced the most stunning and thought-provoking ethnographic account of climate change that I have read. She urges us to consider climate change as a 'form of thought'-a pattern produced when spreadsheets, green moralities, technologies, and modes of calculation interact. These interactions, she argues, not only remake what climate means, or what counts as climate action: they demand nothing less than a revolutionary transformation of our understandings of humanity and responsibility in the contemporary moment. -- Nikhil Anand, author of * Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai * What makes climate change mitigation so challenging, even for activists and municipal officials committed to the project? Working with planners experts and citizens seeking to redress the most pernicious impacts of climate change in Manchester, Hannah Knox produces the most stunning and thought-provoking ethnographic account of climate change that I have read. She urges us to consider climate change as a 'form of thought'-a pattern produced when spreadsheets, green moralities, technologies, and modes of calculation interact. These interactions, she argues, remake not just what climate means, or what counts as climate action. They also demand nothing less than a revolutionary transformation of our understandings of humanity and responsibility in the contemporary moment. -- Nikhil Anand, author of * Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai * Author InformationHannah 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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