Thinking like a climate : governing a city in times of environmental change / Hannah Knox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knox, Hannah, 1977- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Government policy--England--Manchester.

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes--Research--England--Manchester.

Climatic changes--Research.

Climatic changes--Government policy.

England--Manchester.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 312 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Thinking Like a Climate

Contact Zones

Climate Change in Manchester: An Origin Story

41% and the Problem of Proportion

Giving Climate a Body

The Carbon Life of Buildings

Footprints and Traces, or Learning to Think like a Climate

Footprints, Objects, and the Endlessness of Relations

Mitigation to Adaptation

An Irrelevant Apocalypse: Futures, Models, and Scenarios

Cities, Mayors, and Climate Change

Stuck in Strategies

Rematerializing Politics

Test Houses and Vernacular Engineers

Activist Devices and the Art of Politics

Symptoms, Diagnoses, and the Politics of the Hack

Conclusion: "Going Native" in the Anthropocene.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Knox, Hannah, 1977- Thinking like a climate.

ISBN:

9781478012405

1478012404

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.