Knox Thinking Like a Climate

Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-1240-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 326 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knox, Hannah

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.