Thinking like a Climate : Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change
Knox, Hannah
Thinking like a Climate : Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change - Duke University Press 2020
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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.
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English
/doi.org/10.1215/9781478012405
https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478012405 doi
Urban communities
Human geography
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
Social Science Sociology Urban Social Science Human Geography Social Science Anthropology Cultural & Social
Thinking like a Climate : Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change - Duke University Press 2020
Open Access
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.
Creative Commons
English
/doi.org/10.1215/9781478012405
https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478012405 doi
Urban communities
Human geography
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
Social Science Sociology Urban Social Science Human Geography Social Science Anthropology Cultural & Social