Whitehead State, Science and the Skies

Governmentalities of the British Atmosphere
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9986-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: RGS-IBG Book Series

Utilizing environmental archival materials from the UK, State,Science and the Skies presents a groundbreaking historicalaccount of the development of a state science of atmosphericpollution.
* Offers the most extensive historical and geographical accountof atmospheric government and pollution in Britain, availabletoday
* Presents archival material from 150 years of British historythat represents an original contribution to our knowledge of thehistory of science and government
* Develops an innovative combination of Foucauldian history ofgovernment with a history of atmospheric science
* Raises crucial questions about the nature of state/sciencerelations and the conditions under which environmental knowledge isproduced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Whitehead, Mark

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables.
Series Editors' Preface.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
List of Abbreviations.
1 Introduction: Space, History and the Governing of AirPollution.
2 Historical Geographies of Science and Government: Exploringthe Apparatus of Atmospheric Knowledge Acquisition.
3 Science, Sight and the Optics of Air Government 37
4 Governing Air Conduct: Exhibition, Examination and theCultivation of the Atmospheric Self.
5 Instrumentation and the Sites of Atmospheric Monitoring.
6 A National Census of the Air: Spatial Science, Calculation andthe Geo-Coding of the Atmosphere.
7 Automating the Air: Atmospheric Simulations and DigitalBeings.
8 Environmental Governmentalities and the Ecological Coding ofthe British Atmosphere.
9 Conclusion: Learning Like a State in an Age of AtmosphericChange.
Notes.
References.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Whitehead is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University; and Senior Research Fellow at the City Institute, York University, Toronto. His published works include Spaces of Sustainability: Geographical Perspectives on the Sustainable Society (2006); and The Nature of the State: Excavating the Political Ecologies of the Modern State (co-author, 2007).