Weather, climate, and the geographical imagination : placing atmospheric knowledges / edited by Martin Mahony and Samuel Randalls.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mahony, Martin (Environmental scientist), editor.

Randalls, Samuel, editor.

Series:

Intersections (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

Intersections: environment, science, technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatology--Social aspects.

Climatology.

Climatic changes--Social aspects.

Climatic changes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 368 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2020]

Summary:

"As global temperatures rise under the forcing hand of humanity's greenhouse gas emissions, new questions are being asked of how societies make sense of their weather, of the cultural values, which are afforded to climate, and of how environmental futures are imagined, feared, predicted, and remade. Weather, Climate, and Geographical Imagination contributes to this conversation by bringing together a range of voices from history of science, historical geography, and environmental history, each speaking to a set of questions about the role of space and place in the production, circulation, reception, and application of knowledges about weather and climate. The volume develops the concept of "geographical imagination" to address the intersecting forces of scientific knowledge, cultural politics, bodily experience, and spatial imaginaries, which shape the history of knowledges about climate."-- Publisher description

Contents:

Introduction: Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination / Martin Mahony and Samuel Randalls

Part 1: Spaces of Observation. Atmospheric Empire: Historical Geographies of Meteorology at the Colonial Observatories / Simon Naylor and Matthew Goodman

Imperial Oscillations: Gilbert Walker and the Construction of the Southern Oscillation / George Adamson

The Weather Ship: Networks, Disasters, and Imaginaries after 1945 / Katharine Anderson

Looking for the Leeuwin: An Environmental History of the Leeuwin Current / Ruth A. Morgan

Part 2: Horizons of Expectation. Imagined Geographies of Climate and Race in Anglophone Life Assurance c. 1840-1930 / James Kneale and Samuel Randalls

The British Women's Emigration Association and Climate(s) of South Africa / Georgina Endfield

Race and Rainmaking in the Twentieth-Century Southern Africa / Meredith McKittrick

Weather, Climate, and the Colonial Imagination: Meteorology and the End of Empire / Martin Mahony

Part 3: Atmospheric Engtanglements. Darwinian Hippocratics, Eugenic Enticements, and the Biometeorological Body / David N. Livingstone

Civilization, Climate, and Ozone: Ellsworth Huntington's "Big" Views on Biophysics, Biocosmics, and Biocracy / James Rodger Fleming

The Shaded Modernism of the Global Interior: Climate and Risk in the Architecture of MMM Roberto, Rio de Janeiro, 1936-1955 / Daniel A. Barber

Afterword: Historiographies and Geographies of Climate / Mike Hulme.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822987550

0822987554

OCLC:

1153495919